Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manufacture surgical adhesive tape paid practically no attention to the dermatitis which their products occasionally cause until Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U.S. Public Health Service ordered an investigation. Dr. Cumming appointed Dr. Louis Schwartz of his own staff to do the work and Professor Samuel Mortimor Peck, Manhattan dermatologist, to help. They published their report last week...
...Schwartz and Peck first queried the most revered pharmaceutical chemist in the country, Frederick Barnett Kilmer, 83, head of Johnson & Johnson's laboratories at New Brunswick, N. J. since 1889. Mr. Kilmer told them that, as the result of his investigations, he considered the ingredients of adhesive tape not irritating as such; that the skin secretions are retained under the moisture-repellent coating with a resultant maceration of the epidermis. This, rather than idiosyncrasy, said Mr. Kilmer, is the most frequent cause of the irritation...
...Schwartz and Peck found the manufacturers of adhesive tape as secretive about the ingredients and methods of manufacture as they are about the yearly yardage and dollar value of their plaster. Eventually the following list of ingredients became clear: rubber, rosin. "Burgundy" pitch, olibanum, beeswax, zinc oxide, anhydrous lanolin, starch, orris root...
...Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Drs. Samuel Peck and Nathan Rosenthal of Manhattan reported success in controlling various types of hemorrhage with injections of venom...
...cast will wear as little as possible." The pressagent said: "As was the case when Columbus spoke of a new route to India, tremendous obstacles have been placed in the way of the new enterprise. . . . protests. . . . boycott. . . . We have refused to be intimidated." Hefty Heroine Theodora Peck said: "You're just a nudist when you are one. You aren't directed by a vision." Lily de Lyse, who once played with Jimmy Durante in a Manhattan night club, sniffed: "Me nude? I'm an actress. This is a job, non?" A Guild manifesto requested newspaper critics...