Word: eczema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first place, says Feinberg, the field is a huge one. There are in the U.S., he estimates, about 10 million allergy victims; about 2,000,000 have asthma, up to 7,000,000 have hay fever and the rest an assortment of hives, eczema, sinus disorders, reactions to foods, allergic headaches, contact allergies such as ivy poisoning, serum sickness and sensitivity to drugs...
...until he was 15 did Birdsall Sweet finally lose his fear of being away from the respirator. He learned to eat outside it. His wheel chair was put in a station wagon which carried him around the Dutchess County countryside. But then he began suffering from hay fever and eczema, and kidney trouble began to appear. At 16 he had pneumonia...
...describing to newspapers how one of his patients, a 65-year-old man in apparent good health, had suddenly died. Glassmire, backed up by an official autopsy, said that the apparent cause of death was an anti-histaminic which he had prescribed to treat his patient's eczema. The autopsy confirmed that the white corpuscle production in the patient's blood had been drastically reduced. Convinced that the anti-histaminic was to blame, Dr. Glassmire publicly urged Portlanders to avoid using the drug without a doctor's prescription. True, the patient was under doctor's care...