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Word: dermatologist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with thinning dark hair, sits in the doctor's chair, his scalp red, scarred, infected. Dermatologist Marvin Lepaw and an aide hover over him. Slowly, methodically, using magnifying glass and tweezers, they pluck out one hair after another. The agonizing scene in Lepaw's Hicksville, N.Y., office is not an isolated incident. Doctors round the country are now trying to undo the dangerous fallout from yet another quack treatment for baldness: the implanting of synthetic fibers into the scalp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Scalpers | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

Some pet problems can be handled with the oldest of remedies: loving care and companionship. In many cases, Topeka Animal Dermatologist George Doering reported, dogs resort to tail-chewing as a ploy to get attention from a neglectful master. Doering's prescription: either devote more time to the pet or, if Rover is willing, bring in another dog as a playmate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Rx for Fido, Fifi and Friends | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

First prize for the Best Individual Costume at the professional level goes without question to Fran Tarkenton, who looked more like a Lebanese dermatologist than a quarterback on Super Bowl Sunday. Fran had the advantage of working on his costume ahead of time, boning up for Sunday's dismal performance with a passing day in the NFC championship game two weeks earlier that was almost as bad. It was a Jekyll-Hyde job without peer...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Super Bowl, Brown Hockey Highlight Weekend Costume Party | 1/11/1977 | See Source »

...figure cutting across the ice at Madison Square Garden had hardly changed since the Winter Olympics in 1968. After gliding off from Grenoble with a gold medal for figure skating, Peggy Fleming had spent eight years on the ice-show circuit, married a dermatologist and, by last week, decided to put her career into the deep freeze temporarily. The reason: her first child, due in January. "We wanted to have a baby for a long time, but it just didn't happen," said Fleming, 28. "I decided to go back to work and start thinking about other things. Sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Religion, Sep. 6, 1976 | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

When a young dermatologist named William Summerlin first reported in 1973 that he had succeeded in transplanting skin from a white man to a black and from one species of mouse to another, immunologists were intrigued. By the spring of 1974, their interest had turned to incredulity. One researcher after another reported an inability to duplicate the transplants. Summerlin, who had moved from the University of Minnesota to New York's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, found himself under enormous pressure. One March morning, he gathered up a dozen grafted mice and started upstairs from his laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skin Deep | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

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