Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first announcement came from the Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where doctors used acupuncture to anesthetize William Rosner, 65, who was undergoing a skin graft. According to Dr. Louis Orkin, chairman of the department of anesthesiology, needles were placed in the inner corners of Rosner's eyes, his left hand and leg. The sites were selected by following Chinese acupuncture texts...
Rosner, who had agreed to the procedure, suffered no pain during the hour-long operation. "If I felt anything," he said later, "it was just a tingling sensation when they cut the skin...
Despite its effectiveness, acupuncture remains a scientific mystery, even to modern Chinese experts. Some researchers have reported that variations in the skin's electrical resistance seem to follow the twelve pathways or meridians of the acupuncture charts. Others claim that the skin at acupuncture points is less dense than at other spots on the body. J.R. Worsley, a prominent English acupuncturist (but not a doctor), resorted to the ancient explanations last week when he demonstrated his art on a nearly nude young woman on WNET, New York's educational television station. He had been treating the patient, Worsley...
...built stardom on a flutter and a falsetto, will be surprised to learn that he gets knots in his hair because he never combs or brushes it. It is perhaps more surprising that swarthy Tiny is heavily into beauty products. "He'd buy crates and crates of skin cream, and he would spend hours using it," writes his recently alienated wife "Miss Vicki," 20, in the Ladies' Home Journal. Other peeps into the private life of Herbert B. Khaury: "He has a fetish about food...
...Boston's Faulkner Hospital, believes that personality may be at least partially responsible, since clusters generally hit proud, hard-driving individuals who work under substantial self-imposed stress. Graham has found that most cluster sufferers are similar in appearance, with prominent masculine features and reddened, grainy, deeply furrowed skin. Dilation of blood vessels is also apparently present in clusters. Therefore liquor or a dose of any drug that expands vessels, like nitroglycerin, can trigger or worsen an attack...