Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crossed a high ridge climbing an almost impossibly steep path covered with a thick layer of soft wet mud. The forest was soaking wet and the dripping mist in the treetops cast a sepulchral gloom over everything. Here we met a man, emaciated, filthy, saturated to the skin, staggering blindly forward, murmuring the word "Indoo," India, the goal to which he had been pressing literally for months. This Chinese soldier was alone, a thousand miles from home, and dying on his feet. Yet he was still going. The next man we came to was a sturdy young man, about...
...outpatient department, where we have had nearly 100 cases in one day. I have counted over 40 large ulcers, as big as a shilling, on each of the legs of one man. The ulcers are deep and painful, penetrating to the muscles, and sometimes destroying 50% of the skin of calf and shin...
...Nilson de Rezende of Rio de Janeiro in the New York State Journal of Medicine. His method: transplantation of nerves from cadavers, and the use of glue instead of stitches to hold the grafts in place. Destruction of sections of the peripheral nerves (those near the surface of the skin) is rare in civil life, says Dr. de Rezende, but it occurred in 3,500 of the 200,000 U.S. casualties in World...
...avoids the pressure bandages applied, for example, in the British tulle-fras (wax-impregnated gauze) method. Dr. Pendleton contends that any sort of pressure injures the delicate skin cells...
Next to typhus, Iran's biggest menace is leishmania, a mysteriously infectious disease (causing extreme enlargement of spleen and liver, and grey pigmentation of the skin) which kills thousands of natives (who call it kala azar or "black disease"). Leishmania in another form leaves thousands of survivors scarred by disfiguring...