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...Scout can spoil his scoutmaster's day is to break out with a rash of poison ivy. Last week Scoutmaster F. W. James of Belleville, NJ. told the New York Times how he had met this crisis some 200 times in 26 years. He applies a wet dressing of aluminum acetate solution (a common, harmless astringent) for about ten minutes, daubs on more when itching returns. He said that most new cases clear overnight, most old ones in a few days...
...rash like poison ivy from such tropical trees as the papaya. This usually lasts only two weeks...
Rustling, once a matter of cutting animals out of a herd and skillfully altering brands, was long ago motorized. But this year it has spread like a rash all over the meal-hungry face of the nation: ¶ Near Milford, Mich., thieves killed two prize steers, cut off the hindquarters, stuck a $50 bill on one carcass for the farmer...
Hardest hit by a recent rash of parties (on the week ends, naturally) have been our married brethren, whose role of gentlemen in waiting, for you wife to escape such well-known Ali Babas as Joe Neil, "Terrible Tom" Mullen, and smooth-talking J. F. Stonewall Smith...
...bite fever, the original wound heals temporarily, later opens again, larger and more angry-looking, a rash develops, temperature rises to 103° or 104° F., falls to normal in a couple of days, then rises again in cycles which may recur for months. The patient may grow thin, have muscle pains, delirium, arthritis. Treatment is similar to that for syphilis and saves nearly every case...