Word: pyodermia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after a newborn infant is first washed and groomed he is liable to break out in a rash of small red pimples. Few mothers receive their babies smooth and rosy as a peach. Few doctors believe such pyodermia can be forestalled...
...course, left the original oily "varnish" on several babies, neither washed nor greased them for two weeks. He found them free from all skin infections. Last week, the Multnomah County (Ore.) Hospital announced that it had employed the "Patrick method" for three years, found only two cases of pyodermia among 1,916 unwashed, unanointed babies. Each day clothes were changed and buttocks washed with warm water, but beyond this the infants were not handled...
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