Word: dermatologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Technical progress and fashion fads can lead to baldness in both men and women, reports London's erudite medical journal, the Lancet. One sure cause is a certain type of nylon hairbrush, and it took keen detective work by London Dermatologist Agnes Savill to find this out. A man of 27 went to her with a triangular bald spot, getting persistently bigger, on the side of his head. Dr. Savill found many short hairs of unequal length, some with frayed ends. Her conventional treatments-oil and massage-did no good, but when the patient switched to an old-fashioned...
...party or dinner in a restaurant-and then break into paroxysms of action. This technique underlies this first novel by Texan Terry Southern, 34, who lives and writes in Switzerland. The book opens quietly at a posh Los Angeles clinic where Dr. Frederick Eichner, "world's foremost dermatologist," listens to the symptoms of a new patient, Felix Treevly. Six pages later the calm is shattered by a verbal and physical violence, and the book careens off on a hounds-and-hares chase that dooms Patient Treevly and involves the pragmatic Dr. Eichner in an auto crash, murder...
...Dermatologist Robert MacKenna has performed a yeoman's service for the much-maligned teenager by calling attention to one of his real problems-acne-and its serious aspects...
...Britain's authoritative Lancet, acne gets the full treatment from a top Harley Street skin specialist, Robert M. B. MacKenna. Balancing himself between the do-nothing and try-everything schools, Dermatologist MacKenna takes the view that "acne vulgaris is a normal accompaniment of adolescence and is an abnormality only when it ceases to be very mild and is obviously noticeable." For this second type he deplores the it-will-go-away brushoff and gets down to cases...
What to do? Dermatologist MacKenna stoutly holds that each individual case presents its own problems, but he slashes away a lot of old-fashioned injunctions. It is no use, he says, to impose such a strict diet that the victim feels forever hungry and deprived, or to prescribe special face lotions plus shampoos for the unproved relationship between dandruff and acne. Some cases can be cured, says Dr. MacKenna, by moderate restriction of sugars and starches, elimination of chocolate and cocoa in any form, from the diet, and nightly application of a paste containing 6% sulphur, 6% resorcin...