Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southam inserted the point of the needle alongside the tattoo mark and worked it up the arm for an inch and a half, just under the skin. A push on the plunger injected half the shot (three to five million cells) into the volunteer's arm. Dr. Southam pulled out the needle, turned it around and repeated the process lower down the arm. (Some volunteers received implants of tissue fragments of other human cancer strains, grown in animals and chick embryos...
...cancer researchers. Surgeon Arthur D.G. James of Ohio State University College of Medicine (cooperating with Sloan-Kettering in the study) injected Novocain, measured an inch and a half below the tattoo mark, and made a neat incision about an inch long across the arm. He folded back the skin above and below it, then cut out a little gobbet of flesh which embraced the site of the implant. All these biopsy specimens were flown to Manhattan for study. From some, it was found, all cancer cells had vanished within the week; in others, a few straggling survivors were detected...
...that. At the other extreme, dermatologists have tried every conceivable remedy-vitamin A, vaccines, soaps, yeast, antiseptics, astringents, diets, hormones, ultraviolet and X rays, warnings against "picking." Despite such efforts, acne continues to afflict vast numbers of adolescents (variously estimated as 50% to 90%), many with skin-scarring, soul-searing severity...
...Britain's authoritative Lancet, acne gets the full treatment from a top Harley Street skin specialist, Robert M. B. MacKenna. Balancing himself between the do-nothing and try-everything schools, Dermatologist MacKenna takes the view that "acne vulgaris is a normal accompaniment of adolescence and is an abnormality only when it ceases to be very mild and is obviously noticeable." For this second type he deplores the it-will-go-away brushoff and gets down to cases...
...never have acne.) There is not a shred of evidence for the common belief that acne is a result of masturbation. For some unknown reason, the face, chest and upper back are especially susceptible. There the tiny sebaceous glands, which are designed to secrete fats to oil the skin, become clogged with an abnormally waxy form of these fats. Blackheads and pimples form over the shutdown pores; there may also be pustules, but infection is believed to be the result of the acne, not the cause of it. In severe, persistent cases, the scars left by pimples and pustules...