Newspapers are agog with reports that Karl Marx suffered from self-loathing and alienation caused by a skin disease called "Hydradentis suppurativa - a disease of apocrine sweat glands found in armpits and groins" (boils and carbuncles, blackheads, lumps etc. leaking pus ). -- as per Dr. Sam Shushter in the British Journal of Dermatology. It is said that its intensity affected his work and that it is reflected by his alienation in his writings. Some letters have also been quoted. Here is the link, if you wish to see a full story:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article2773914.ece
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