Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took until 1957 for the FDA to figure out by increasingly sensitive tests, that there is a minute residue of stilbestrol in other parts of caponettes than the head -20 to 30 parts per billion in the liver and 35 to 100 in the skin...
Aside from albinos, the most susceptible sun victims are redheads and blondes. Ironically, Dr. Knox noted, fair-skinned people, who are usually most anxious for a tan, run the greatest risk in the process. Olive-skinned people, who run less risk, do not need the tan anyway. (Blonde women, Dr. Knox added unchivalrously, show their age more than brunettes-mainly because of the obvious aging effects of sunlight on their skin...
...time, concluded Dr. Knox, for the medical profession to begin an educational campaign on the harmful effects of excess exposure to sun, and advocate use of preparations to ward off both premature aging of the skin and cancer. Blondes, he suggested, can keep that schoolgirl complexion longer if they use powder and makeup bases with built-in chemical sun screens. It was with no hint of boasting that Dallas' Dr. James B. Howell noted: "Texans have the highest incidence of skin cancer in the population of any state...
...Renwal's Visible Man. A 16-in.-tall clear-plastic assembly kit of the human body from skin to skeleton, with veins, arteries, bones and body organs, Renwal's man can be taken apart and put together again. List price...
...chairs to groan, curse and soil themselves through the day. In Hydro, a patient is wrapped mummy-fashion in icy wet sheets for 72 hours at a stretch. In the "untidy" wards the bedridden turn their heads obsessively from side to side, rubbing off the hair and even the skin from their scalps. Such weekly rituals as Bath Day, when the patients are divested of rubber bands, bits of tobacco and the last shreds of dignity, are recorded with repellent candor...