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...background. Moreover, says Christie's, "it is the first portrait in European history to depict the sitter engaged in a normal everyday activity -in this case, reading a missive." The painted lettering is illegible and thus gives no clue to the man's identity, but the scar is identical to that shown on other known portraits of Philip...
...victim's own skin. Physicians at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio use skin patches taken from unburned areas of the patient's body. Stretched so that they cover as much as nine times their original area, the dressings help prevent the formation of scar tissue and hasten the growth of new skin...
...Some of the worst aftereffects of burns-scars and crippling skin contracture-have been minimized or eliminated by techniques now in use at the Burns Institute of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Galveston, Texas. There, doctors have found that prompt application of lightweight plastic casts keeps burned flesh from contracting as it heals; pressure bandages kept in place 24 hours a day control the buildup of scar tissue and prevent the formation of disfiguring welts. As a result, burn patients who might once have had to undergo a long series of corrective and cosmetic operations can now avoid...
...nightmare. Daniel had already undergone yet another radicalization while awaiting trial. On a trip to Hanoi to bring back three U.S. prisoners, he had been caught in an air raid and found himself hurtling into a shelter with a Vietnamese baby in his arms. The experience became both a scar and a poem: "In my arms, Father, in a moment's grace The Messiah of all my tears I bore, reborn, a Hiroshima child from hell...
January 1971: Tearfully, the President welcomes Martine II and her mother. The second Martine shows a scar on her foot, which Bokassa remembers, and some snapshots he took years before: her 36-year-old mother reminds him of a motorcycle accident in Saigon in which he broke a finger...