Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small farms, sugar cane fields, blackamoor shacks. During the hurricane Lake Okeechobee burst the dikes. The rich land became a morass; in certain places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three days. Throughout the whole region the air was noxious with fumes of decay. Immediate cremation of the dead was ordered. Quarantine of the entire district was imminent. It was a nauseous vale of murk and putrescence...
...precipitation of pituitrin he has been able to separate two hormones−oxytocin useful in obstetrics. vasopressin useful in keeping up normal blood pressure during certain operations, useful too against diabetes insipidus. Dr. Kamm reasons that the danger from burns comes from the boiling of water out of the skin and flesh, and the failure of the body to replace that water effectively. His vasopressin he believes may stimulate the body to repair the water shortage of burns...
...mildest form of the disease is a little cracking or scaling between the toes. A vegetable parasite, related to the mould that grows upon stale bread, gets deeply into the skin. Soft corns are frequently due to ringworm infection. Sometimes the mould causes blisters, scaly eruptions, wartlike growths. Blisters may break and cause a wet, oozing surface that becomes covered with scabs...
...came off, an inverted bowl of bakelite. Exposed was a crazy-quilt of skin patches, splotched with blue and red and white, and pulsating. Norman Douglas' skull, rotting from a 5.000 h. p. electric shock two years ago,* had been removed piece by piece. For each piece his surgeons-Drs. R. E. Gaby and K. G. McKengie of Toronto-had grafted a piece of skin from his thighs to what remained of his scalp. Frailly covered thus was his brain...
Electroplating stout metals with aluminum was described at the Chicago Institute of the American Chemical Society last week. If the process should become practicable commercially, housewifery and industry will benefit by inestimable billions. Pots, pans, vats, machines exposed to corrosives will be protected by a skin of aluminum, metal highly resistant to mos.t acids and alkalies...