Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leave you with a limp." Mr. Clarkson told Terry, but the boy, then n, thought it was worth while, and his mother agreed. So he spent six weeks in an uncomfortable position, with his fingerless left hand joined to the toes of his left foot by a skin flap. Then Surgeon Clarkson amputated the toes and grafted them in place of the missing fingers. That was 4½ years...
...human being is directly traceable to tobacco or to its products in any form . . . There are a few scientists who report that by using a high concentration of cigarette smoke-entirely different from the smoke which a person draws from a cigarette-and painting it on the skins of mice, they have produced skin cancers on the mice. On the other hand, there are many more scientists of high repute who have made similar experiments and have reported that no cancers were produced. Moreover, all scientists agree that there is no known relation between skin cancers on mice and lung...
...rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am L. afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid of love, I who love love? . . . Why was I born without a skin, O God, that I must wear armor in order to touch or to be touched? Or, rather, Old Graybeard, why the devil was I ever born at all?" Brown himself shares the mood of despair: "This is Daddy's bedtime secret for today: Man is born broken. He lives...
...Next place the business end against your body where you want the injection. A little pressure will cause the spring to send the needle deep into the skin, even through bulky clothing, and the needle automatically to discharge the atropine into the bloodstream...
Working with Research Assistant Adele B. Croninger, Drs. Graham and Wynder obtained tar from a machine which "smokes" thousands of cigarettes, then painted the tar on the backs of mice. It produced scores of cancers. While these skin cancers are not identical with lung cancer in man, they are so similar that the researchers are confident that human lung tissue reacts the same...