Word: eczema
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...wine, had lately lived on little else. His rate of consumption: one to four quarts of wine a day, two to six dozen eggs a week. To be certain of enough fresh eggs, he left his family a few years ago to start a chicken farm. The strange eczema-like rash, which had grown redder and flakier for five years, soon faded on hospital diet, but the patient was still sick with other ailments unconnected with egg white - a urinary tract infection, chronic bronchitis, heart disease, cancer...
...symptoms of allergy may be asthma, hay fever, edema (swelling), hives, eczema, sick headache, diarrhea, stomachache. Dr. Vaughan estimates that the U. S. has 6,000,000 people with hay fever, 600,000 to 3,500,000 with asthma, 3,000,000 with recurrent sick headaches, 4,000,000 with frequent or occasional hives-that altogether some 60,000,000 of the U. S. population have had, or will have, some major or minor allergic symptom at some time during their lives...
...week's end the Duchess suffered a slight setback, after she was moved from the hospital to the Miami-Biltmore Hotel. The Southern Cross had developed some bearing trouble in her port propeller shaft. Pookie had a touch of eczema. But the Windsors expected that everything would be all right for their return this week to Nassau. The happy, busy Duke promised to come back after the first of the year for another, longer visit...
...records of students' allergies with the results of their entrance examinations. Last week Dr. Jimenez, just in time for the hay fever season, broadcast a consoling item. Allergy, said he, is a symptom of intelligence. On college achievement tests, he found, students suffering from hay fever, asthma and eczema rate five to ten percent higher than their non-allergic fellows...
...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...