Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glad I'm getting married. I don't much like my husband, but he is rich.") In the five sightless beggars stumbling into a ditch in the famous Parable of the Blind, Torrilhon sees a whole ophthalmological catalogue. From left to right, he diagnoses pronounced pemphigus (a skin disease) localized around the eyes, which has caused opaque corneas; some form of blindness in which bright light is painful (the figure's hat is pulled down over his eyes); atrophy of the eyeballs, probably caused by glaucoma or panophthalmia; corneal leukoma (corneas thickened from an ulcer, wound...
...Skin grafts or organs transplanted from one human being to another will not "take" permanently unless donor and recipient are identical twins. Reason: any healthy mammal sets up antibody defenses against "foreign" protein. For treating burns and in plastic and reconstructive work, surgeons would be able to do much more for patients if they could break down this automatic defense system. Last week, from a Manhattan conference sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, came word of the most promising breakthrough yet on the antibody front...
...which, in most adult patients, continues to be secreted by the pancreas.) Tolbutamide did no good from the start in 8% of cases. In a further 8% it had to be dropped because early good results wore off. A few patients gave it up because of side effects, usually skin rashes, nausea and vomiting. It caused no serious illnesses...
...working through electrodes attached outside the body require too strong a current for continuous use. Better, said Dr. Lillehei, to attach one electrode to the heart at the time of operation, lead the wire out through the chest incision (the second electrode can still be placed just under the skin), and keep the pacemaker working until the danger is past. The wire then comes out as easily as a drainage tube...
...Hirsch endures his fate better than most because he believes that even in Westerbork he walks with God. He reads his Bible, forces hatred from his heart and mind, achieves the near-impossible article of faith that even the Nazis are his brothers. Cynically at work saving his own skin, Henriques is yet fascinated by Hirsch's stubborn spiritual strength. On the day Hirsch and his family are led to the train, all the suppressed guilt in Henriques boils to the top. Through a single act of revenge (toward Cohn) and kindness (toward Hirsch), Henriques forfeits his life...