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When the American Medical Association met in Dallas last week for its annual winter clinical sessions, the sun shone brilliantly if coolly over what Texans call the "Land of the Big Sky." But big sky and bright sun are far from being an unmixed blessing, warned Houston's Dr...
Skin Screen. An individual's risk of harmful consequences, ranging from sunburn to cancer, is in inverse ratio to the density of the screen built into his own skin-the amount of pigment in the epidermis. This is most clearly shown, said Dr. Knox, in the contrast between the...
Aside from albinos, the most susceptible sun victims are redheads and blondes. Ironically, Dr. Knox noted, fair-skinned people, who are usually most anxious for a tan, run the greatest risk in the process. Olive-skinned people, who run less risk, do not need the tan anyway. (Blonde women, Dr...
Chemical Screen. Popular suntan lotions and creams increase tolerance to light rays by factors of four to six, said Dr. Knox. A cream containing one of the best chemical screens known, para-amino-benzoic acid, will increase it a hundredfold. So .will the newest chemical sunscreen family, the benzophenones. Trouble...
It is time, concluded Dr. Knox, for the medical profession to begin an educational campaign on the harmful effects of excess exposure to sun, and advocate use of preparations to ward off both premature aging of the skin and cancer. Blondes, he suggested, can keep that schoolgirl complexion longer if...