Hunk o’ Skin*
By Jerome Z. Litt

Reprinted from the Archives of Dermatology
May, 1961, Vol. 83, pp. 844-845

(The form and meter are from Kipling’s “Gunga Din)

You may talk of lungs and liver,
Of the twins you did deliver
And the kidney stones that passed you in the night;
But when it comes to itching,
All your fingers will be twitching
For the ointment that had better expedite.

* With apologies to Rudyard Kipling’s “Gunga Din”

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