Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patrolled Rum Row. Father Charles White Trippe was a Manhattan banker. He married Lucy A. Terry, whose family, somewhere along the line, had acquired Latin blood. That accounts for the historic "John" becoming Juan (named for a beloved Aunt Juanita). Also it accounts for Juan Trippe's swarthy skin. The combination has been anything but a handicap in President Trippe's dealings with South American politicos...
...Johns Hopkins University; of long-standing necrosis caused by x-ray burns; in Catonsville, Md. He began his experiments before the advent of modern protective devices, by 1909 had lost an eye, four fingers. Surgeons had to keep whittling at his ravaged body, performed 73 operations besides innumerable skin grafts...
...cure. He took a whole bean each day for five days. On the sixth day he took two ouarit beans. Soon after, he swears, he became unconscious, remained that way for some days. When he regained consciousness, he was stone blind and "swelled up like a dead pig." His skin was an itching, burning rash. For two months he stayed in that condition. Then his sight returned and he began to improve. But, to his shame as a good Haitian, he was entirely white, not the sallow white of the albino, nor the blotched white of the syphilitic...
...Hollywood, plastic surgeons can do what they are doing for Doris Johnson's hand. For head disfigurements it is now possible to remake eyebrows and lashes with snips of scalp. linings of the eyelids with mucous membrane from the mouth, and to remodel noses, lips and ears with skin grafts. Burned faces, said Dr. Updegraff, are more common now than in Wartime...
...here diverged and with the help of Professor Adah Elizabeth Verder of George Washington University grew another crop of germs in minced chicken embryo under ordinary atmosphere. New generations developed in seven to ten days and accelerated efforts to produce immunization agents. Eventually the investigators hope to devise a skin test for leprosy which will make detection of that disease as simple and as certain as the present skin tests for tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever...