Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accident at the U.S. Air Force base in Bordeaux, France two months ago, Specialist 3/c Rodney Madeira, 20, suffered third-degree burns over 30% of his body, with lesser burns over another 10%. He faced a long and dangerous period in the hospital while growing the skin he needed to cover the burned area...
Flown to the Air Force hospital at Wiesbaden, Germany, Madeira was swathed in dressings of erythromycin (an antibiotic) on fine-mesh gauze. In a month his wounds had healed enough for the doctors to start skin grafts. They covered 20% of the burned area with skin from Madeira's left arm, then began looking around for a new source of supply. It was unfortunate, Chief Surgeon Major Philip A. Cox remarked to Madeira, that he did not have an identical twin, since only skin from the patient's own body or from such a twin would...
...minutes had started on the first leg of his trip to Germany. On the way, Charles Madeira, who had not seen his brother since they left their home town, Reading, Pa., a year and a half ago, had some reservations ("They ain't hacking off none of my skin for nobody"). Later he decided to go through with the operation: "He'd do the same thing for me-I hope...
Although doctors cannot yet be sure whether the operation will be a permanent success, they can point to some encouraging, if rare, precedents in recent years. In 1952 Army Private Leonard Kijowski donated skin to twin brother Leo (TIME. Feb. 4, 1952), and both made good recoveries. Last summer Major Cox treated an airman suffering from third-degree burns over 45% of his body area, saved his life when he chanced to spot his twin brother wandering around the hospital corridor...
...Thomas B. Fitzpatrick and colleagues at the University of Oregon's Medical School report that a drug called 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP for short), used for treatment of skin blemishes as long ago as old Egypt, also increases the skin's tanning ability. When taken in small precise doses during carefully timed exposure, 8-MOP will permit users to get a tan without going through a painful burning stage. The effect of 8-MOP is not protective, Dr. Fitzpatrick warns, but speeds up the effects of the sun; large doses will produce a painful burn...