Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human bite is sometimes sharper than a serpent's tooth. A bite that is hard enough to break the skin, even with prompt treatment, may result in an amputation. If treatment is delayed twelve hours, the chances of amputation are increased threefold. In fact, said Dr. Otho C. Hudson of Hempstead, L.I., in last fortnight's New York State Journal of Medicine, human bites anywhere on the body are much more dangerous than animal bites (except, of course, those of rabid dogs). Reason: human mouths contain very destructive bacteria...
...vacuum. It is compact, portable so that it can be used to in spect the insides of machinery installed anywhere. In therapeutic use its advantage is that of radium over ordinary X rays: its rays are so penetrating that they can destroy internal cancers without harmful effect on the skin and fleshy tissues...
Ranging from albumen to measles globulin, Professor Cohn's already long list of extractions has only recently been enlarged by two new ones, a synthetic membrane or skin used in treating burns, and a dark brown substance, with possibilities in medical use just beginning to be explored...
...blood-plasma extracts, one like skin, the other like bone, were announced a fortnight ago by the Harvard Medical School's Department of Physical Chemistry. The laboratory work was done under Dr. Edwin Joseph Cohn, who perfected the extraction of "measles globulin" and other human-blood components for the Army & Navy (TIME, June 5). The new extracts, both plastics...
...liked to carve miniature tombstones in wood, but he got angry when asked to inscribe "Safe in Heaven" over the tomb of the children's pet jackrabbit. Children goggled and thrilled when Uncle Jimbilly casually remarked that he would cut off their ears, skin them alive and nail their skins to the barn door...