Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported the Mayo Clinic's Drs. H. C. Hinshaw and W. H. Feldman. The group of experts, who conducted an experiment on 34 people, found that, against tuberculosis, streptomycin is nothing to shout about yet. Streptomycin did its best work on such odd kinds of tuberculosis as urinary, skin and miliary (nodules widely spread through the body). In streptomycin's favor: it is not dangerous to use. and experiments are continuing...
...first I thought it was simple lockjaw. There was swelling in the back of the throats, light hemorrhages under the skin, fever and a high pulse rate. Then I noticed a rapid consumption of white blood corpuscles. . . . Finally there was internal bleeding in the intestinal tract...
...Hiroshima, 30.000 had died in the explosion; 30,000 more had died in the following fortnight from mysterious ailments;* some victims' skin turned brilliant red, formed giant blisters...
Ernest Hemingway visited Hollywood Beautician Gloria Bristol (specializing in male customers) for a scalp-&-skin treatment, and learned a new beauty trick-the use of a toothbrush. "He told me," she said, "he always had brushed his teeth with a Turkish towel...
Chief feature of the disorder is a small, tender, fibrous nodule under the skin near the top of the victim's shoulder blade...