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...creeping crud" are U.S. servicemen's names for any & every kind of tropical skin disease. Doctors often find the nicknames convenient, since diagnosis is not always easy and many varieties respond to standard treatment: cleaning, painting with silver nitrate and other chemicals, dressing with sal-sulfur ointment, avoidance of sweating, return to the temperate zone. The various kinds of jungle rot were described by Lieut. Commander Robert R. M. McLaughlin in the Naval Medical Bulletin last week. Some of them...
Captain Kern and his helpers, who have handled 360 burn cases aboard a hospital ship, do not believe in tannic acid for burns-it forms a loose, crusty scab under which infection often develops. All they used on the young fireman was sulfathiazole ointment and rather tight bandages. The tightness slowed the oozing of blood serum into injured tissues, thus reducing shock. A month after he was burned, the sailor's wounds were healthy and pinch grafts were laid on his deepest burns. The patient, almost unscarred, is now back on duty...
Only fly in the ointment: some middle-aged women and fat little boys & girls with big appetites ate incorrigibly even after taking dextroamphetamine...
...showdown inspection" came a complete inventory of each soldier's belongings. Here, men lost any extra shirts or pants they might have snaffled, gained any replacements they needed. A set of impregnated (anti-gas) clothing was issued. Gas masks were carefully tested, decontamination powder and protective ointment supplied...
...British medical officer reports curing 1,000 cases of scabies (itchy skin infestation caused by barely visible burrowing parasites) by painting patients "from neck to soles with a 20% benzyl benzoate emulsion." He claims his method is faster and cheaper than the classic system of baths, sulfur ointment and sterilization of clothes and bedclothes. Only 0.92% of his patients needed a second coat...