Although the title of William Faulkner‘s famous novel The Sound and the Fury overtly references the senses, most critics have focused on the fury rather than on the sound. However, Faulkner‘s stories, vividly and descriptively set in the U.S. South, contain not only characters and plot, but also depict a rich sensory world. To neglect the way Faulkner‘s characters employ their senses is to miss...

By Surgeon B. D. BASU, i.m.s. Case 1.?Lance Naik I. Gr. had been suffering from eczema of palms of both hands and heel of left foot for a long time before he came under my observation. His medical history sheet showed several admissions in hospital for eczema of the palms for a period extending over a year. Zinc, iodoform, vaseline, &c., locally had been tried before. When he came to me, I trie...

We report an outbreak of a "rash" syndrome in patients attending methadone clinics in New South Wales. It presents with a pruritic, exanthematous or purpuric rash involving the trunk, limbs, palms and soles, which develops over a week and proceeds in most patients to desquamation (mainly of palms and soles) persisting for 3-4 weeks. Mucosae are not involved, and patients are generally systemica...

Case Report A 40-year-old priest presented with asymptomatic depigmented and hyperpigmented areas on the palms and the soles of 2i years' duration. The depigmented lesions on the palms had developed first and a month later hyperpigmented lesions appeared nearby. New lesions gradually involved the skin of the backs and sides of the hands and the flexor surface of the wrists. Similar lesions appe...