Word: eczema
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...compilation of skin disease cases which doctors had treated. In a list of 14 skin ailments occurring in almost 1,000,000 people up to 1927, ringworm was the ninth most common.* During 1928 and 1929 ringworm at the New York Skin & Cancer Hospital became second most common after eczema. Of 56,705 patients examined, 5,078 had ringworm. Of the 5,078, 4,328 had it on their hands or feet. Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service Bureau figures that half the adults in the U. S. suffer from ringworm at some time...
Another cause for the increase is that doctors are recognizing as tinea what they used to call eczema...
...Baltimore Dr. Ray Morton Balyeat of the University of Oklahoma Medical School said he had examined 2,728 migraine victims and figured that the U. S. had 4,000.000 of them. He believes that a relationship exists between the headaches and asthma, hay fever, eczema and other allergic disorders. At least he has prevented attacks of migraine by easing attacks of the allergies...
...realize that the Monarchist parties in Spain were hopelessly split among themselves and afforded no leader who could keep the new Cortes subservient to the Crown. Promptly His Majesty called off the elections he had ordered, called upon Prime Minister Damaso Berenguer (who was still in bed with eczema of the foot) and obtained the cabinet's resignation. Then began the frantic canvass of politicians, the procession of truculent greybeards, through the Royal Palace, men who have been like deflated toy balloons under the Dictatorship, but are now distended again by the breath of power...
...Because eczema of the foot confined Prime Minister Damaso Berenguer to his quarters in the War Ministry, King Alfonso XIII broke last week the rule that a king never calls on a minister. His Majesty called for a long, earnest talk with footsore General Berenguer. Spain has been on the brink of revolution for months. Dare His Majesty keep his promise to order elections held-the first parliamentary elections Spain has had in seven years...