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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...
Lest anyone should think he had contradicted the encyclical by this interpretation, Cardinal Bourne explained that after joining a political party a good Catholic must beware of "erroneous principles which sometimes affect parties...
...Every fall in timber prices will affect Russia's trade balance and hinder the realization of the Five-Year Plan...
...Pennsylvania, a onetime worker at the Rockefeller Institute, won the gold medal for his demonstration of experimental leucemia. Leucemia is a blood disease closely resembling cancer. The blood contains abnormally vast numbers of white blood cells. Usually the spleen and liver are hugely enlarged. Bone marrow is usually affected. Dr. Furth isolated a virus from leucemic chickens. The virus stimulated leucemia in other chickens. He got a virus from leucemic mice, which affected other mice deleteriously. Presumably a virus causes human leucemia. Chicken virus does not affect mice, nor vice versa. Dr. Furth demonstrated all that with charts and figures...
...same week last year. Scrap steel prices reached the lowest levels last week since December 1914. At the end of May 105 blast furnaces were in operation, a loss of eight for the month, and only 33.4% of the total. The course of the automobile industry is expected to affect vitally future steel operations...