Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self," sighs Frazier. Meanwhile Joe is more concerned with hardening up his head to withstand Ali's stabbing left jabs. "Every day," he says, "I soak my head in rock salt and water. Who-e-e-e, does that make me mean! But it toughens my skin, and maybe it works on the bones. Conditioning?that's what this fight will be all about. And there's no way he's going to be in better shape than me. For him to win, he'd have to be in much better shape than me, because...
...after he broke his leg on the first play (he kicked off) of the first game a few hours after that pep rally, because he wouldn't get a football scholarship, to become a full time hot damn barber! Patty who married Porky who has soft folds of white skin, a common affliction with old time crackers, which cracks in the sun so they don't go to the beach, now lazy Patty who loved to sleep (to forget). Patty who braved to God to let her and her mother alone, Patty and Billy who had a little girl before...
Despite their ordinary appearance, the spider's bite produces a necrotic lesion, in which the skin and flesh in the area around the wound dies, decays, and falls away. These lesions, if not treated can result in loss ofa limb-or, in rare cases, death...
...Better wound coverings have also improved burn victims' prospects by preventing excessive loss of essential fluids, which lowers resistance. Doctors, who routinely take skin from animals and cadavers to cover serious burns, are now using the victim's own skin. Physicians at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio use skin patches taken from unburned areas of the patient's body. Stretched so that they cover as much as nine times their original area, the dressings help prevent the formation of scar tissue and hasten the growth of new skin...
...Some of the worst aftereffects of burns-scars and crippling skin contracture-have been minimized or eliminated by techniques now in use at the Burns Institute of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Galveston, Texas. There, doctors have found that prompt application of lightweight plastic casts keeps burned flesh from contracting as it heals; pressure bandages kept in place 24 hours a day control the buildup of scar tissue and prevent the formation of disfiguring welts. As a result, burn patients who might once have had to undergo a long series of corrective and cosmetic operations can now avoid...