Word: ringworm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Oct 16 you say: "Natives of the jungle learned through the centuries that the best clothing was no clothing ; the best shoes no shoes; the best rations, whatever grows in the jungles. But the white man, with his civilized stomach, his vulnerability to ringworm, malaria and leeches, is far from being acclimated...
...have been in a jungle area for almost a year. . . . Compared to our "unacclimated" American boys, the natives have proportionally much more malaria for lack of clothing after sundown; more ringworm and other foot diseases because they go barefoot; and are more susceptible to tuberculosis, pneumonia, and other diseases because of improper nutrition...
...from solved is nobody's fault in particular. Natives of the jungles learned through the centuries that the best clothing was no clothing; the best shoes, no shoes; the best rations, whatever grows in the jungles. But the white man, with his civilized stomach, his vulnerability to ringworm, malaria and leeches, is far from being acclimated...
Boys are the chief victims. A Manhattan doctor explained that more boys than girls catch ringworm "because boys have short hair and scuffle more." Girls are protected by long hair and decorum...
...ringwormy moppet must stay away from school until cured. The minimum curing time for ringworm is a month. X rays are the only way of getting at the fungus around the roots of the hair. To be effective, the rays must make infected hair fall out. Sometimes hair roots get killed in the process. What with new cases and slow-curing cases (if one X-ray treatment does not kill the ringworm fungus, another cannot be given safely for six months), so many Queens moppets are under ringworm quarantine that a special school for ringworm students has been started...