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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Jungle Rot -- Aug. 13, 1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
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 | | "Jungle rot," "New Guinea crud" or "the creeping crud" are U.S. servicemen's names for any and 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. |
| www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,792300,00.html (135 words) |
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