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Norman Tobias, MD
Suite 716 Missouri Theatre Building St. Louis, Mo 63103

Arch Dermatol. 1964;90(4):454.

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To the Editor:

Like most editors, I am sure you have seen the word, pruritus, misspelt many times. Students are perhaps the worst offenders. To impress them with the proper spelling of the word, I have composed the following "poem":

Like a little flea

That's hard to see

But never fails to bite us

Is a word that's felt but

Oft misspelt

And that word is pruritus. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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