Word: ringworm
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...Philadelphia. Harrison Stanford Martland of Newark's pieces of radium-rotted bones. How mites which live on rats transmit typhus fever, by Jesse Bedford Shelmire Jr. and Walter E. Dove of Dallas. The description by Fred DeForest Weidman of Philadelphia of the skin infection technically called dermatophytosis, popularly ringworm, and in certain advertisements "athlete's foot." Xanthomatosis, which makes children look like frogs, squatty and popeyed, and which Merrill Clary Sosman of Harvard found X-rays will relieve and sometimes cure. The scolding which Harvard's George Richards Minot gave lazy physicians because they think liver extracts will cure every...
...have cataloged, renamed and numbered all, certain hospitals will practice with the new nomenclature. Chronic invalids could look forward to entertaining themselves with the numerological rigmarole of their numerous ailments; to swapping anecdotes or "stumping" each other on 64-309 (penetrating wound of the stomach) or 612-13 (fungus-ringworm-disease of the tongue...
...mildest form of the disease is a little cracking or scaling between the toes. A vegetable parasite, related to the mould that grows upon stale bread, gets deeply into the skin. Soft corns are frequently due to ringworm infection. Sometimes the mould causes blisters, scaly eruptions, wartlike growths. Blisters may break and cause a wet, oozing surface that becomes covered with scabs...
...Ringworm is caught at swimming pools, golf clubs, athletic clubs-wherever people use common dressing rooms. Wearing can vas slippers at such places will help prevent infection, as will the strict use of personal soaps and towels. Writes Surgeon General Gumming: "Probably the general tendency of the American public to spend a certain amount of time in hotels is largely responsible for the increase of this disease. There is no good proof that water in swimming pools is in any way responsible...
Infected persons should boil their towels, socks, gloves and linens for 15 minutes to kill the ringworm organisms. They must avoid infecting others; they should sleep with no one, at least while the disease is active...