![]() ![]() Your sense, which one work on idioms calls “a real or imagined longing for other women in a man’s seventh year of marriage”, appeared a century after Walden. More recently, seven-year itch has occasionally been used for the itch caused by poison ivy and for a while became a figurative term for something or someone that was persistently irritating or a continual nuisance. The phrase was sometimes later reinterpreted to mean that it would recur after seven years, or would reappear every year for seven years. ![]() Thanks to Stephen Goranson for finding this.īecause it was so hard to get rid of, a story grew up in North America that those who got the itch were stuck with it for the next seven years. also, that corruption so commonly known to the western country as the scab or seven year Itch, &c.Īn advertisement by Dr John Mason in the Ohio Statesman (Columbus, Ohio), 26 Mar. Mason’s Indian Vegetable Panacea, which may be taken with perfect safety, by all ages, for the cure of the following diseases:- Dyspepsia, Scrofula, afflictions of the Chest and Lungs, Cods, Coughs, Liver complaints, Mercurial disease, Ulcers, Sores. The earliest example on record is this, which is also the first appearance of seven-year itch in print: Many remedies were advertised that claimed to cure the condition. It was very hard to treat before effective insecticides came along. It was once extremely common in all kinds of situations and historical American sources are full of names for it, among them Indiana itch, Illinois itch, Jackson itch, Cuban itch, prairie itch, camp itch, army itch, ship itch, jail itch, mattress itch, swamp itch, winter itch, barley itch and grain itch. Its medical name is scabies, whose name comes appropriately from Latin scabere, to scratch. The seven-year itch that he had in mind was an infection by a mite which lays its eggs in burrows under the skin. Walden, or Life in the Woods, by Henry Thoreau, 1854. If we have had the seven-years’ itch, we have not seen the seventeen-year locust yet in Concord. These may be but the spring months in the life of the race. There is not one of my readers who has yet lived a whole human life. ![]() But the sense of Henry Thoreau’s text isn’t what you might call limpidly clear to most people today: This example of the phrase is one of the earliest known. Perhaps you can shed some light.Ī Well spotted. My wife and I were trying to locate the original use as the author was not in any way referring to relationships or sexual boredom. The commonest quality of life scores were those in the range of 11-20.Q From Loren Crispell: In the final chapter of Walden, almost at the final paragraph, Thoreau refers to mankind as human insects and uses the phrase the seven year itch. The disease in its mild, moderate, and severe forms adversely affected patient lives. However, 40.2%, 35.5%, and 29% of the patients reported that the disease affected very much on their shopping, clothing, and working activities, respectively.Conclusion: The disease had caused a significant effect on patients' lives, with no significant association between the severity of the disease and overall quality of life scores. The mean scores of the two domains of embarrassment and shopping were significantly associated with the male gender (P = 0.003 and 0.021, respectively). The overall mean of the quality of life scores was 14.95±4.5 with no significant association between the overall quality of life scores to disease severity and certain sociodemographic characteristics of the patients. More than 84% of the study sample’s quality of life was very large and extremely large affected. Results: More than half (51.4%) of the patients were less than 30 years of age, including 58.9% males, 70.1% of them were married, and 67.3% were living in the urban area. Dermatology Quality of Life Index questionnaire was used for data collection. This study aimed to assess the quality of life of scabies patients, taking into consideration the demographic profile and clinical presentation of patients in Erbil.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 107 scabies patients attending a private dermatology clinic were recruited. Scabies is endemic in most of the communities of the developing world. Background and objective: Scabies, known as the seven-year itch, is a contagious skin infestation by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei that causes a pruritic skin eruption. ![]()
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