Word: dermatologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second wind for his second term. A more ebullient, less inhibited Nixon emerged. At a restaurant in Coral Gables, he mingled jovially with the other diners, patting a girl on the cheek and telling her: "You'll always be beautiful because you are blonde." To a dermatologist, he said in mock horror: "Skin and all that. Don't tell me any more about it!" Stopping at an ice cream drive-in after dinner, Nixon chatted with other customers, told the manager: "Your spirits must...
...coiffure are splitting hairs. Teasing and picking any hair is damaging, said Dr. Algie C. Brown of Atlanta; it causes the shafts to fracture and encourages infections. The hair of blacks is especially vulnerable if it has previously been treated with chemicals or hot combs to straighten it. To Dermatologist Brown the condition is trichorrhexis nodosa; to the Afro cultivator, this means that he is losing his hair. Brown's prescription: a natural, unteased Afro...
...Insect stings are a common warm-weather hazard. Except in rare cases of serious shock, treatment is often omitted. But a cheap and effective antidote is readily available in the kitchen, according to a letter in the A.M.A. Journal by Dr. Harry Arnold Jr., a Honolulu dermatologist. His prescription: a quarter-teaspoon of meat tenderizer dissolved in a teaspoon or two of water and rubbed into the skin around the bite. Meat tenderizer, Arnold explains, is rich in papain, a protein-dissolving enzyme, which breaks down the venom. Arnold says that a dose of meat tenderizer will stop the pain...
...Leon Goldman, a University of Cincinnati dermatologist, reports that doctors can say for certain only that warts are produced by a polyoma virus, a highly contagious carrier. According to Goldman's 20-year study, 60% of all warts are spread between family members; others are contracted in locker rooms, swimming pools and washrooms. He urges people with warts to cover them in order to prevent contagion. Neither Goldman nor his colleagues have found a satisfactory cure...
...real crowning glory is hair transplanting, a technique that has the benefit of covering the client's head with his own hair. It was pioneered by New York Dermatologist Dr. Norman Orentreich and is also practiced, among others, by Dr. Samuel Ayres III, a Beverly Hills dermatologist who has transplanted hair on Frank Sinatra, Joey Bishop, the Smothers brothers and many other show business personalities. In a long series of operations, strips or plugs of hair-a plug contains from 15 to 20 hairs complete with roots and skin-are removed from the back or side of the head...