Word: latex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eaten away by cancer, cannot always have new ones made of flesh-&-blood grafts. At the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Arthur H. Bulbulian, a trained sculptor, molds artificial noses and ears so rosy and translucent that only an eagle eye can spot them as fakes. Dr. Bulbulian uses "prevulcanized liquid latex," a creamy rubber compound, which can be tinted delicately before it hardens...