Word: dermatologist
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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...
...classic case: a New York woman, suffering from bursitis in her shoulder, received a radiation burn from excessive X-ray treatment, was later warned by a skin specialist that cancer might develop. She sued, and an appeals court in 1958 awarded her $15,000 for "cancerophobia" induced by the dermatologist's warning...
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...