Word: dermatologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vitamin D-something already in plentiful supply in the normal U.S. diet. In some cases, the sun also helps in clearing up acne and eczema, but excess exposure leaves the skin wrinkled, coarse and leathery like the back of a cowboy's neck. In a study directed by Dermatologist John M. Knox of Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston, the most noticeable degenerative changes in skin tissues were found to be related not to age but to the areas of greatest exposure to the elements. "The visible cutaneous changes usually interpreted as aging," says the report, "are apparently...
What Griffin did was really quite simple. He persuaded a dermatologist in New Orleans to treat him with a medicine used to cure vitiligo: a skin disease which causes white blotches to appear on a Negro's face and body. Where the medicine worked imperfectly, Griffin applied black stain; then he shaved his hair, and within a few days was transformed into a Negro...
Soap is one of the marks of civilization, but it is still a pretty primitive agent for cleansing the human skin. So says a British dermatologist, who claims that most soaps today get people clean by removing from their skins the very things that nature put there to guard against irritation and infection. Writing in the New Scientist, Dr. F. Ray Bettley accuses soaps made the traditional way, from caustic alkalies and fats, of not only removing grease and dirt but of penetrating the skin's protective layers and leaching out the skin's natural protective emulsion, frequently...
Four staff members were arrested on charges ranging from operating a hospital without a license and practicing medicine without a license, to violating state fire laws. Dr. Frank Combes, the veteran dermatologist who developed the Chemerasure process, was long gone, disgusted with Budkon. The seven patients in the midst of treatment remained at the Center under the supervision of state health officials. This week the seven will go home, and Budkon Center will soon be shuttered...
...from Kenyon College in 1957, was more than enough to sustain him. Brought up in a devout Episcopal family, Olmstead made the most of a Catholic Bible surprisingly provided by his jailers. He read Scriptures and spent hours making up sermons. "Often in his letters home," said his brother, Dermatologist Brent Olmstead, "he'd include a little prayer he'd written especially for us." In his letters home, Bruce Olmstead always seemed to be trying to construct for himself some sort of image of his daughter's childhood that he was missing. "I try to picture...