Word: eczema
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...health became worse (he suffered from eczema, asthma and syphilis) and the demand for his paintings declined, Gauguin saw his withdrawal in another light: he had "buried his talent among the savages; no more will be heard of me; for many, it will appear to be a crime." Despondent, he climbed the slope of a mountain, swallowed arsenic and waited to die. But his stomach failed him: he merely became ill and had to climb down again, "condemned to live...
...going to manage it? You can't say to your wife, Darling, I'm fed up with you--I know your body too well--the toes, the knees, the flanks, the moles, the hollows under the clavicles, the asymmetrical arrangement of your breasts, the pink patch of eczema on your side. . . . Who knows, one fine night ... everything might suddenly become beautiful and strange once more. You would be a stranger...
Going Hollywood is not as simple as going native. To be Mistah Kurtz or a Paul Gauguin, one has to learn little ritual incantations; to survive in Hollywood one must take survival training. Even chameleons die there of eczema, looking in their last hours like iguanas by Jackson Pollock. Yet people can live there, if they know how. A 1964 survival textbook for men and women...
Aside from a feeling of social wellbeing, the only proven beneficial effect of sunning is the formation of vitamin D-something already in plentiful supply in the normal U.S. diet. In some cases, the sun also helps in clearing up acne and eczema, but excess exposure leaves the skin wrinkled, coarse and leathery like the back of a cowboy's neck. In a study directed by Dermatologist John M. Knox of Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston, the most noticeable degenerative changes in skin tissues were found to be related not to age but to the areas...
...suicide leads the pastor to more destruction by words, cruel words to the village schoolteacher (Ingrid Thulin), whose life's meaning is her love for him. "I don't want you," he shouts. "I'm sick of your myopia, your fumbling hands, your weak stomach, your eczema, your periods-your candlesticks and tablecloths...