Word: dermatologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local in 103. A main advantage of the method: it induces a light "sleep state," from which the patient arouses quickly. ¶Compounds of salicylic acid, para-aminobenzoic acid, tannic acid and their derivatives absorb the sun's skin-burning rays, said the University of Chicago's Dermatologist Stephen Rothman, and they can be used in anti-sunburn lotions. Also, they permit tanning without burning. As some South Pacific veterans will attest, antimalarial drugs such as Atabrine also protect against sunburn when taken by mouth...
...Suntan oils may cause inflammation at the very time they are protecting the skin against sunburn, warned Dermatologist Wiley M. Sams of Miami. Some ingredients can filter out part of the ultraviolet rays, but simultaneously sensitize the skin to other rays...
...doctors' orchestra was organized in 1938, now numbers some 50 medical men, their relatives and a handful of professional musicians, including Conductor Maxim Waldo. There are no standard medical-musical tie-ups. Dentists play violins, cello, horn, bass. General practitioners play flutes and timpani, a dermatologist plays viola. The doctors prefer to remain anonymous to avoid publicity that might be contrary to medical ethics...
...Science Review (which recently switched to a new name and a new network: Tomorrow, on ABC), has seen scores of teachers take to show business like ducks to water. Five professors, after mumbling their way through TV scripts, headed straight for courses in speech. Dr. Maurice Sullivan, Johns Hopkins dermatologist, soon caught on to the fact that the best way to talk about sunburn was to surround himself with a bevy of bathing beauties. Dr. Heinz Haber, an expert in space medicine at U.C.L.A., is another case in point: three years ago, when Haber appeared on a Hopkins series...
Skin eruptions on the hands are responsible for much misery, and for a big share of a dermatologist's practice nowadays. In the A.M.A.'s Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology, two doctors identify the typical patient: "A young matron, who must keep house, cook, wash dishes, do the laundry, raise her children, and hold her husband [and] whose occupation is inherently one of the most hazardous with which the dermatologist commonly has to deal...