Word: erythema
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...swellings appear on the shins, thighs, arms, scalp. Known to valley workers as "the bumps," this erythemanodosum lasts anywhere from a few days to several weeks. When it finally fades, leaving only brown spots, the first stage of the disease is complete. There is no specific treatment for the erythema, but even without a physician's care practically all the victims recover...
...patient and at the same time permit the continued creation of the sex hormones, stimulate the women. In the U. S. Dr. Harry Benjamin cautiously put this theory to practice. He uses a stimulation dose of X-ray one-seventh to one-tenth as strong as needed to produce erythema (redness). His conservative decision was that moderate, carefully regulated exposures of the ovarian sites to the X-rays induced good body and mental tone and vigor...