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Patients of this type, say Allergists Thomas G. Johnston and Alan G. Cazort, react simply to pressure on the skin. When the allergist applies a patch containing a suspected cause of allergic reaction, the patient reacts all right-but to the pressure of the patch, not to the supposedly allergenic substance. In their practice the doctors found that many patients who say they are allergic to wool are actually irritated by the wool's rough fibers: properly conducted patch tests show that they do not react to pure wool, or the wool in their particular sweaters. For girls, wearing...
There is a simple way to weed out patients who are "allergic to everything": apply two patches with equal pressure, one patch containing suspected allergen and the other inert. If the reaction is the same, the patient has dermographia...
...married a snaggle-toothed bag to secure his position in her father's firm, but she left him, and, even worse, the old tightwad gave him only one raise in six years. Eventually their respective spouses return, and after a helpful exchange of advice, the couples retire to patch up their differences in classic fashion. "Honey," pleads the patient buddy just before the final curtain, "please don't put that Vicks Vapo Rub on your chest...
...blueberries lie in a patch of ground belonging to some city people. Two resourceful farmers, who like blueberries quite a bit, become rivals for the patch and expend considerable effort in attempts to acquire the blueberries. Means writes with economy in this piece, and he never lets his smooth style get away from him. It's funny. Wernick's story also is amusing, perhaps extraneous at times, but on the whole a dryly wise comment on how life she is lived in the U.S.A., where we learn love is a faith and marriage a chapel. "Birthday Letter" finds Allen Grossman...
McCormack has had governmental experience as President of the Boston City Council, but his name is not as familiar around the state as Herter's. He has denied the charge of bossism, and tried to patch up the party rift...