Word: tinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herman Goodman, 37, Manhattan skin specialist, had a heavy mail last week. He had supplied statistics on tinea to the May Archives of Dermatology & Syphilology, and the queries were coming...
...Tinea is the technical name for ringworm. It is caused by varieties of a fungus called Trichophyton which gets into the skin. Various trichophyta affect the scalp or beard (causing patchy baldness), the torso, arms and legs (where the infection usually takes the form of a ring), the fingers, toes and the interdigital folds, the nails. The feet and hands are the most common sites of infection. Small blisters form and the skin erodes. W. F. Young Inc. of Springfield, Mass., makers of the proprietary germicide Absorbine Jr., taking a lesson from Listerine's Halitosis and Life Buoy Soap...
Another cause for the increase is that doctors are recognizing as tinea what they used to call eczema...