Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nerve gas" like acetyl choline, one drop of which in liquid form will, if placed on a skin abrasion, quickly induce unconsciousness, followed later by no ill effects. Swiss sources last week said the Germans had experimented with such a gas - with a faint geranium odor - against which ordinary filter masks are useless...
Most things pass over my skin with a laugh, but not that sticking-out-all-over-with-propaganda letter of Lady Whosis. If TIME is misled by such politico-effusions, TIME'S better informed reader...
Last week Health News, official bulletin of the New York State Department of Health, noted that "sand soaps" used by factory workers were often more damaging to the skin than industrial irritants, offered the following cleansing formula: "Equal parts of sulfonated neat's foot oil and liquid petrolatum containing 25% gelatin ... are added to white granulated corn meal in the proportion of one-and-a-half parts, by weight, of corn meal and one part, by weight, of the oil mixture. To prevent growth of mold or bacteria a 0.5 solution of chlorobutanol is added...
...Skin Cancer. Most skin cancer could be prevented. All moles, warts, cysts, burn scars, chronic infections and irritations "should be regarded with suspicion." Exposure to sunshine is a hazard only if it continues day in, day out, year after year, as in the case of farmers and sailors. Best protection against skin cancer: "soap, water and scrubbing...
...getting fluids into cancers located near the body surface. The fluid is shot in a tiny, powerful jet from a diamond (to prevent rapid wearing away) orifice two-thousandths of an inch in diameter, at a pressure of 15,000 lb. per sq. in. Such a jet penetrates the skin, enters the flesh and spreads to a depth of nearly an inch...