Word: skin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standing as a summer drink, Calvert Distilling Co. last winter dispatched an expedition to the Amazon ("Green Hell of Guiana" for advertising purposes), equipped with "dermatherms" and plenty of Calvert whiskey. After sitting around in the jungle drinking Calvert for six weeks the expedition returned with figures showing that skin temperatures were ½° to 1° lower after "ingestion" of the whiskey...
...instant an embolus seats itself like a valve in an artery, the victim usually feels an excruciating pain at that point. Simultaneously "the affected extremity becomes paralyzed, cold and pale, the pulses disappear, and in a few hours the skin becomes mottled with a bluish hue. . . . On the fingers and toes, or sometimes over prominent bones . . . dark blisters appear which may open and from which the gangrene spreads...
...ailments have become prevalent among those technicians. They must accompany patients in warm pools. Warm water makes them lose a pound of sweat during a two-to-three hour treatment. It also lowers their blood pressure. Chlorine, essential to sterilize the pools in which the sick bathe, causes a skin irritation which is almost impossible to cure unless the physiotherapist keeps, out of the water entirely. If the patient exercises alone in a small raised pool, the attendant must stoop over to give treatments and this often develops backaches. To avoid backaches and skin troubles, smart hydrotherapists wear cotton athletic...
...childish mysticism of the Gothic. In Venice and Genoa, however, the Gothic spirit hung on a little longer in the magical paintings of Crivelli, Lotto, Magnasco and Strozzi. Lotto's Pieta is one of Cleveland's most striking pictures: a huge, bullnecked Christ crucified whose dead skin lies in ghastly contrast against the living flesh of His friends. Crivelli adds to his Madonna and Child a huge housefly, an exactly rendered cucumber, a halo like a round sheet of riveted steel...
...head like a goat's, but much larger; teeth like a dog's; a body which began like a buffalo's and tapered off like a sea lion's, with two four-toed feet at the rear. Beneath its tough, oily skin were 16 ribs attaching its backbone to a hard breastplate...