Word: dermatologist
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...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...
...local in 103. A main advantage of the method: it induces a light "sleep state," from which the patient arouses quickly. ¶Compounds of salicylic acid, para-aminobenzoic acid, tannic acid and their derivatives absorb the sun's skin-burning rays, said the University of Chicago's Dermatologist Stephen Rothman, and they can be used in anti-sunburn lotions. Also, they permit tanning without burning. As some South Pacific veterans will attest, antimalarial drugs such as Atabrine also protect against sunburn when taken by mouth...