Re: [Phys-l] stock up on dyes

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

At 12:26 AM 4/15/2006, you wrote:
> When I was a kid back in the forties, the dyes my mother and I used
> were:  the yellow die used to color margarine (in a capsule kneaded into
> the margarine in a plastic bag.) gentian violet for my impetigo,
> tincture of iodine, and others I can't remember.
>
> bc, nostalgiac.


Last week I had cause to remember not so nostalgically,
that impetigo, a contagious skin infection of the staph type
was said in those far off days to be a disease of the
impoverished.

 So that after pigging out on high-octane Indian curries daily
 during a visit last week to a town that actually offers
several Indian restaurants and thereafter breaking out
in an itchy skin reddening, the young, pretty, and pregnant
 intern at the walk in center at Wichita's Wesley Hospital
 Clinic,   Dr.  Landers, offered the possibility of
impetigo or food allergy in my case.

I was content to go  with antihistamines and a graduated
steroid regime.   Oh, and the obligatory shot.
In the butt, of course.


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!