Word: eczema
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the brilliant stalwart nudes of Tahiti, for which the world remembers him, to the nostalgic view of France, painted in the Marquesas in the last years of his life when his eyesight was nearly gone and his feet were rotting away with chronic eczema...
...overthrow of the French monarchy, with violent and inflammatory pamphlets. He gradually became powerful as a spokesman for the extreme Left, the "true type," according to Joseph Shearing, "of the low agitator of the Paris gutters." Terribly ugly, 5 ft. tall but with an enormous head, he suffered with eczema so badly that it was commonly believed he had leprosy. Charlotte de Corday arrived in Paris, bought a kitchen knife for 40 sous, took a fiacre to Marat's residence where she was refused admittance. She then wrote two letters, flattering him, pretending that she had important information, dressed herself...
...taken to Marat, found him sitting in his bath, correcting proof on a plank laid across the tub. Seriously ill, Marat spent his days in a slipper tub, nude to the waist, a dressing-gown thrown across his shoulders, his head bound in vinegar-soaked muslin, fighting arthritis, eczema and the great heat. His flesh corrupting, his blood poisoned, death was only a matter of weeks. His lead-colored features were swollen and disfigured with sores; his eyes, bloodshot arid yellow-grey, were nevertheless serene. He spoke to her gently. Awaiting her opportunity, she gave him details of an uprising...
...area of the patient's skin, applies a drop or two of the allergic substance, covers the whole with a piece of adhesive plaster. Skin tests have preserved the health and lives of multitudes. They have also" served to reveal that about 1% of the population develops an eczema-like skin irritation solely from the adhesive tape used in covering the skin-test material...
Hayfever is closely related to asthma, hives, eczema, certain forms of food sensitivity, some forms of sick headache, occasionally colitis. They are all forms of allergy, a new medical specialty with two national organizations-the Society for the Study of Asthma & Allied Conditions and the Association for the Study of Allergy...