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Brief Encounter. In Hagerstown, Md., Deputy Sheriff Robert Miller and City Policeman Harry Frush surveyed the scene of the crash, handed each other tickets for reckless driving...
...doctors knew only one effective remedy: removing the infected hair, either by X ray or by pulling. Last week doctors of the U.S. Public Health Service had cheering news: scalping, they reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, may be unnecessary. In a wide test in Hagerstown, Md. they had discovered that an ointment rubbed on the head can cure scalp ringworm...
Examination of 8,657 Hagerstown school children revealed that 479 little boys and 86 little girls had ringworm. After trying hair pulling and 17 different salves, doctors finally brought the epidemic under control. Most effective method: an ointment made of salicylanilide. Daily rubbings-on for two months cured 57% of the first test group; a later test cured...
...shrewd detective work, an altogether different explanation was found: boys get ringworm in barbershops. The P.H.S. men noticed that 65% of the boys' scalp infections were in the "clipper area." Following up the clue, they learned that, sure enough, barbers' clippers (also combs, brushes and scissors) in Hagerstown barbershops were heavily infected...
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