Word: eczema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Bradford Cannon, Judson G. Randolph and Joseph E. Murray of Boston report that "patients continue to appear with permanent tissue destruction that has resulted from relatively recent radiation treatment of acne, plantar wart, eczema [and] superfluous hair." Examining 165 such cases from their personal files and the records of Massachusetts General Hospital, the doctors starkly document the dangers of unnecessary exposure to irradiation. Items...
...known, the result of defective genes, and therefore are not predetermined at conception. They are caused by events, still unknown, occurring during life in the womb, and some of them can be repaired by surgery. Many have no proved relation to heredity, e.g., eczema, psoriasis, allergic diseases, migraine, stuttering. Others are known to occur more commonly in some families than in others, such as diabetes and nearsightedness. "Another large group," Kemp notes, "includes psychopathy, psychopathic or abnormal personalities often associated with criminality, alcoholism, asociality, vagrancy, suicide or sexual perversion." Prevailing medical opinion is that none of this last group...
Visitors to Mexico are often affronted by dogs whose naked, blotchy skins look as if a loathsome disease had stripped them of their fur. Some of these creatures are really victims of mange or eczema, but others are more or less mixed descendants of the Xoloizcuintle,* the hairless, edible dog of the Aztecs. "Xolos" have been neglected until recently, but last week Norman P. Wright, a onetime British diplomat living in Mexico, was well on the way to establishing them as a rare, high-fashion breed...
...Bird. "Age, sex, race, occupation, recreation, hobbies, economic status . . . can often be read directly from the skin. But it also reveals emotions. Many people use their skin as the principal organ of expression." Well-known examples are blanching and blushing, chills and sweats, but another emotional outlet can be eczema. "In my experience with eczema," said Dr. Bird, "the most prominent hidden impulse is anger, but eczema patients peculiarly are unable to become angry openly...
...leader of the British Labor Party. "I have had a long innings," the pipe-smoking ex-Premier told a London columnist last week. "I shall be glad when I can hand over to a younger man." Attlee had a slight stroke recently, and he is troubled by a persistent eczema. Intimates say that he looks fit enough, but is growing testy and has occasional periods of forgetfulness. As its next leader, the divided Labor Party, which went down to crushing defeat in this year's general election, has just about decided on Cockney Herbert Morrison, Attlee's longtime...