Word: sulfured
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...itch does not clear up by itself. Scratching only spreads it. The old-fashioned treatment was heroic: sulfur ointment-which often caused another kind of skin eruption-and boiling sheets! and clothes (now known to be unnecessary) every time they were used. In recent years dermatologists have been curing itchers with benzyl benzoate, which causes less rash. They are now experimenting with a concoction of DDT, benzyl benzoate to kill the mites and a secret ingredient which kills the eggs, in the skin-deep burrows...
...crud" or "the creeping crud" are U.S. servicemen's names for any & every kind of tropical skin disease. Doctors often find the nicknames convenient, since diagnosis is not always easy and many varieties respond to standard treatment: cleaning, painting with silver nitrate and other chemicals, dressing with sal-sulfur ointment, avoidance of sweating, return to the temperate zone. The various kinds of jungle rot were described by Lieut. Commander Robert R. M. McLaughlin in the Naval Medical Bulletin last week. Some of them...
...marines who took Iwo Jima last March called the eight-square-mile volcanic island a beachhead in hell. Sulfur fumes belched from fissures in the steaming rocks. Rumbling noises echoed from the bowels of the harsh, scarred earth. Ugly Iwo cost 22,000 casualties, including 5,445 killed...
...must work in heavily infected woods, the Public Health Service advises others to de-tick themselves every few hours by using tweezers or paper to pick the ticks off-thus keeping the germs (if any) off the hands. The Army's Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk reports that sulfur dusted into shoes and clothes will keep the ticks away...
...After. Of the three great surprise weapons of World War I-Britain's tanks, Germany's Big Berthas and poison gas-none played a decisive part in the outcome. Gas would have been no surprise to the Spartans, who used sulfur fumes in the siege of Plataea (428 B.C.) and lost the battle...