Word: dishpan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hodgkin's disease. Main argument for a separate policy (since other forms of health insurance may offer as good coverage) : the belief that fear of the high costs of cancer care keeps many victims from their doctors until the disease is too advanced for effective treatment. ¶ Dishpan hands sometimes take an extreme form in kitchen workers, with eczema and severe bleeding under the nails. Dr. Peter I. Long Jr. of Dayton, Ohio, reports in the A.M.A. Journal that prevention depends not only on wearing gloves but also on keeping detergents from seeping into the gloves...
...Sticking food particles to a plate before putting it in a dishpan to demonstrate the inferiority of a competitor's detergent...