Word: funguses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buerger's disease is unknown. Many, but not all, patients are cigarette smokers (smoking constricts the small arteries). The King's doctors are reported to have ordered him to stop his heavy smoking. Most patients with Buerger's disease also have acute or chronic epidermophytosis (fungus diseases of the skin like washerwomen's itch or athlete's foot). The disease occurs most frequently between the ages of 20 and 45 (the King will be 53 Dec. 14). Doctors do not know why, but men victims outnumber women...
...actidione has been proved only against powdery mildew of beans, tomatoes and roses under greenhouse conditions. But agricultural scientists are excitedly testing it on other plants infected with a long list of other fungus diseases. If actidione kills the smuts, blights, rusts and wilts of the major farm crops, it will have a tremendous effect on the world's food supply: fungi probably steal as much food from man as all the world's insects...
...bald in, is an excellent place for people who claim they can cure baldness. Red-haired Patricia M. Stenz runs a hair and scalp clinic across the street from Hollywood's "Radio City" at Sunset and Vine. She has a theory that all baldness is caused by a fungus. A bald head, says Miss Stenz, is something like athlete's foot, at the other end of the body; it runs in families, as athlete's foot does, not through heredity but because sons catch it from their fathers...
Miss Stenz treats baldness with two solutions (one red, one white) developed by her partner, Biochemist Irwin J. Bash. The solutions, says Bash, make the scalp unpalatable to the fungus. Some of the satisfied customers who believe that their scalps have been de-fungused and re-haired by Stenz & Bash: Cinemactors Jimmy Stewart, Dick Powell, Gig Young, Gene Kelly...
During the war, White served in tropical countries and made surveys of fungal deterioration of Army material. At present, he is supervising Army research aimed at preventing fungus damage to clothing and food...