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If you’ve ever pulled off your socks only to notice the cracking skin of your feet and dismissed it as Athlete’s foot, think again. First noticed in Vietnam, boot rot- or jungle rot- may initially cause the same warning signals as Athlete’s foot.
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Until the 1960s, foot problems associated with the jungle environment were widely defined and given names such as “immersion foot,” “tropical jungle foot,” and “jungle rot.” These covered a multitude of symptoms, from dermatomyositis and pyoderma to abrasions.1 During the Vietnam War, research led to the...
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Jungle rot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jungle rot may refer to: •Tropical ulcer (also known as "Aden ulcer," "Jungle rot," "Malabar ulcer," and "Tropical phagedena") •Jungle Rot (Band) (band)
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jungle rot - FastHealth Medical Dictionary ... jungle rot n : any of various esp. pyogenic skin infections contracted in tropical environments .; Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.
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After he graduated from high school, he heard of another natural doctor in Canada, who massaged people's feet to heal them. He was in such ... His black walnut tincture became famous, not only to cure impetigo, but for fungus infection and jungle rot. When soldiers learned that Private Christopher could cure jungle rot,
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"Jungle rot," "New Guinea crud" or "the creeping crud" are U.S. servicemen's names for any & every kind of tropical skin disease. Doctors often find the... ... The various kinds of jungle rot were described by Lieut. Commander Robert R. M. McLaughlin in the Naval Medical Bulletin last week. Some of them:
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