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  • Thousands visited the springs hoping for cures for afflictions including (according to one 1821 inventory) “Habitual Costiveness,” “Depraved appetite,” “Calculous and nephritic complaints,” “Cutaneous eruptions,” “Some species or states of gout,” “Some species of dropsy,” scrofula, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea.

    Off to the Races 2007

  • Thousands visited the springs hoping for cures for afflictions including (according to one 1821 inventory) “Habitual Costiveness,” “Depraved appetite,” “Calculous and nephritic complaints,” “Cutaneous eruptions,” “Some species or states of gout,” “Some species of dropsy,” scrofula, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea.

    Off to the Races 2007

  • Cutaneous Leishmaniasis - caused by the parasitic protozoa leishmania; transmitted to humans via the bite of sandflies; results in skin lesions that may become chronic; endemic in 88 countries; 90% of cases occur in Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Peru; wild and domesticated animals as well as humans can act as reservoirs of infection.

    Notes and Definitions 2008

  • Cutaneous: Most (about 95%) anthrax infections occur when the bacterium enters a cut or abrasion on the skin, such as when handling contaminated wool, hides, leather or hair products (especially goat hair) of infected animals.

    Anthrax 2008

  • L. Y. Matsuoka et al., “Sunscreen Suppressed Cutaneous Vitamin D3 Synthesis,” Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 64 1987: 1165–68.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • L. Y. Matsuoka et al., “Sunscreen Suppressed Cutaneous Vitamin D3 Synthesis,” Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 64 1987: 1165–68.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • L. Y. Matsuoka et al., “Sunscreen Suppressed Cutaneous Vitamin D3 Synthesis,” Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 64 1987: 1165–68.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • Cutaneous sensory receptors spread to the whole body of the human fetus by 20 weeks gestation, and the cutaneous flexor reflex response in infants of 28 weeks gestation is highly sensitive to painful stimuli 23.

    Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong) 2006

  • L. Y. Matsuoka et al., “Sunscreen Suppressed Cutaneous Vitamin D3 Synthesis,” Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 64 1987: 1165–68.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • Now, in my final weeks of med school, I've come across Thursday afternoon palsy, more commonly known as Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment, or meralgia parasthetica:

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

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