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Word: oxsoralen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Griffin took Oxsoralen, a drug sometimes administered to victims of vitiligo, a disease that produces milk-white patches on the skin. The drug makes the skin extraordinarily sensitive to ultraviolet rays; under sunlamp or sunlight exposure, the skin turns a deep brown. * From Hughes's poem "Dream Variations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Black like Me | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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