Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether from Wilson, Emerson, or the honeybee, the message is the same: know what you have, and use it. To properly manage the colony of 100 trillion brain, muscle and skin cells entrusted to you (more than all the people that will ever enrich the earth's soil) is a divine task, and the unique privilege of being human. Alan White...
...group of Young Conservatives, he let loose on his favorite topic: there are too many "coloreds" in Britain. This, he predicted, would produce "eventual conflict on a scale which cannot adequately be described by any lesser term than civil war." Warming up to the war metaphor, Powell called skin color "a permanent and involuntary uniform which performs ... the functions of a uniform in warfare, distinguishing one side from the other, friend and foe, making it possible to see at a glance where to render assistance and where to attack...
Still, the best covering for a burn is the patient's own skin. Taken from uninjured areas, in sheets as thin as 0.025 centimeters (0.010 inches), it is sometimes perforated and stretched, and then applied as a mesh over the burn. It thus can cover an area three to six times as large as that from which it was taken and acts as a scaffolding for growth of new skin...
...limbs become stiff, exercises must be started almost immediately, despite the fact that any movement can be extremely painful. Though hospital stays have been shortened, many burn victims remain from 30 to 60 days and some are kept a year or more, not only because they are undergoing extensive skin grafts but because portions of the body may have to be entirely reconstructed. In fact, says Brooke's Colonel Basil A. Pruitt, the army's top burn expert, the plastic surgery in some cases is sheer artistry...
Though prompt application of new flexible splints and pressure bandages lessens scars and skin contractures, burn victims are often left with disfiguring features that even the best plastic surgeons cannot eliminate. Says In-Service Education Director Carol Fulton of Boston Shriners: "They don't go home like Cinderella and live happily ever after." To prepare patients for re-entry into the outside world, many burn centers have added psychiatrists, psychologists and other therapists to their staffs...