Word: ringworm
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...Ringworm. In Toronto, Mildred Put-nik, 28, testified that when she returned her engagement ring to ex-Fiance James Kuca three days after he gave it to her, he made her pay $100 for depreciation...
...Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, 715 youngsters out of the city's 6,000 elementary-school children trooped back to classes last week with their heads covered by white skull caps. After twelve months of battle, the "Soo" is winning its fight against an epidemic of tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp) among its youngsters (TIME, Nov. 3), but has still not been able to stamp out the stubborn disease...
...city's ordeal began in the spring of 1950: five cases cropped up, caught hold, and multiplied with raging speed. By winter, 1,459 schoolchildren had infected scalps, and the Soo was in the midst of the worst ringworm epidemic ever recorded north of the Rio Grande. Itching heads were thrust under ultraviolet lamps to make the disease show up, shaved, scrubbed, treated with salves, and encased in sterile white cotton caps to prevent spreading. Doctors tried new drugs by the score. Special X-ray clinics were set up, and skilled radiologists were brought in to treat the itchy...
Reader response was immediate and varied-and free. An Arkansas lawyer recommended that doctors use the juice of green walnut hulls, which had cured his grandson. A Brooklyn insecticide company asked permission to fog the whole town with a special germicide. One company wanted to send 500 cases of ringworm medicine. Dozens of firms offered cures. Some sent doctors to study the epidemic and supervise treatment...
...Because ringworm is caused by various fungi, cures that worked somewhere else had no certainty of curing the Soo. Most effective help came from Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., of Nutley, N.J., which followed up the TIME story by sending Dr. Ruth Wolfe to hold rallies in which she taught mothers to use an experimental drug called R02-2453. Hoffmann-La Roche flew in 200 cases of this new medicine to help stop the spreading fungus...