Word: pruritus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the semilegendary Hippocrates, father of Western medicine, writing 600 years after David, the oldster's lot was not a happy one: "Old men suffer from difficulty of breathing, catarrh accompanied by coughing, difficult micturition, pains at the joints, kidney disease, dizziness, apoplexy, cachexia [wasting], pruritus [itching] of the whole body, sleeplessness, watery discharges from bowels, eyes and nostrils, dullness of sight, cataract, hardness of hearing...
...patients were assured by their physicians," said Gastroenterologist Weiss "that the upset and pruritus [itching] were only temporary and would subside. After a week of these distressing symptoms, they would be given some of the routine pectate preparations and more reassurance. By the end of the third week after having been starved, given anti- spasmodics and various internal and external medications to no avail, they sought the aid of the gastroenterologist...
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