Sweating of Soap

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Gustatory sweating: Frey syndrome.

One year after resection of a parotid neoplasm, a 44-year-old man developed sweating over the left side of the face while eating (see video). He had to continuously dab his face with a cloth during a meal. He has been treated successfully with botulinum toxin. Gustatory sweating, known as Frey syndrome,1 results from misdirected regeneration of parasympathetic fibers normally innervating saliva...

The Sweating Sicknesses

In the year 1485 Henry Tudor landed at Milford Haven with an army of foreign mercenaries, and, marching to Boswortli Field, defeated Richard III. on August 22. He made his triumphant entry into London on August 27, and brought with him in his train "one by no means a captive." A deadly sickness broke out in the capital on September 19, so that more than fifteen thousand persons were cut off by ...

Pedagogical Soap

Interactive Pedagogical Dramas (IPD) are compelling interactive stories that have didactic purpose. Autonomous agents realize the characters in these dramas. Their roles may be to portray humans facing overwhelming, emotionally-charged difficulties. This challenges the agents to interact with a depth and subtlety that is consistent with human behavior in difficult, stressful situations. To addr...

A Case of Sweating Blood

A fkw weeks ago a medical man in Kangoon told me that he had a case under his observation ?f a Mahomedan lady who sweated blood. She was a woman of about 50 years" of age, who had ceased menstruating six months ago, and since her menses had stopped, she had begun to sweat blood?the bleeding taking place, curiously enough, only about the waist, in front. I did not believe that his story could po...