Word: chrysarobin
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...streaked dead white, fair men dull blue, sometimes tinged with green. (Mr. Wilson first saw green and blue men on a Colombia farm after a "night out".) Neither painful nor fatal, pinta is serious because it disfigures, is very infectious. It can be checked with antiseptic drugs, especially chrysarobin, powder obtained from a tropical tree, which is an ancient remedy of Indian herb doctors. But only tattooing can restore the blotches to their original color...
...include these: opening any blisters and applying cool wet dressings of diluted aluminum acetate liquor or of saturated boric acid; painting daily with a strong solution of permanganate of potash, tincture of iodine, or mercurochrome; anointing with a salve of salicylic and benzoic acids, of ammoniated mercury, or of chrysarobin; exposing to X-rays; soaking in gasoline (six or eight seconds). Combinations of the above may be dangerous...
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