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...have anything bad.... I figured that if everyone was so scared at first at home, why I'd get a wide berth any time I wanted it. It sure was crowded on the train coming back and I started to get hot and boy, did I begin to itch! So I just rolled up my sleeves and showed my splotches. ... In two minutes I had four seats all to myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Jungle Rot | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...news of an insecticide which may be as good as famed DDT, and perhaps better. Known in wartime code as "666," it is a simple chemical: hexa-chloro-benzene. In tests on parasitic mites and ticks (Acorida) it proved much more effective than DDT. On mangy rats infested with itch mites it worked a complete cure and, unlike DDT, proved entirely harmless to the animals. It may be the answer to scabies in animals and man, and to many tick-borne diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 666 | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...Senate president pro tern. It was commended in some quarters as a further presidential gesture of friendliness to Congress. But others saw it differently. Cried the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "A hack sits in the Cabinet . . . Senator McKellar is a vindictive peanut politician ... a grudge-bearing politician with an incurable itch for spoils. . . . President Truman is too big and busy a man to have to waste his time listening to this shoddy impresario of the patronage grab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Home Week | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...those who itch to conquer and to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 16, 1945 | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Malaria flourished the length of the Mississippi and the Ohio. The itch, typhoid, dysentery-all avoidable by cleanliness and sanitation-were common. So were smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, colds, pneumonia, tuberculosis. Asiatic cholera decimated many towns in the 1830s and '40s. Other popular ailments included insanity, alcoholism, "scolding," and a mysterious disease known as "ennui" or "hypo," marked by "feelings of dullness, fear, indefinite pains and lack of desire to attend to any business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pioneer Perils | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

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