Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — A Scar on Every Face. [ARTICLE]

A Scar on Every Face.

An uncanny, pernicious pest called the “date boil’’ scars the face of every human bora., in. Bagdad. Children invariably have this dreadfu* sore on their faces. Throughout the middle east this mysterious scourge is known by various names—“Buton d’Alep,” Nile sore,” “Delhi button,” etc. J Its cause and its cure are unknown. First a faint red spot appears, growing larger and running a course often 18 months long. White men from foreign lands have lived years in Arabia, only to have this boil appear upon their return to civilization, where its presence is embarrassing and hard tb explain. Maybe it was “date boils” that Job had'! Once a British consul at Aleppo lost almost his whole nose from one ,of these boils. Nearly every Bagdad native you meet has this “date mark” on his face.—National Geographic Magazine.