Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stern proceeded to try brain injections (of vitamins, sedatives, medicines, etc.) for many other ailments, got good results against tetanus, ulcers, skin diseases, inflammation of the brain, insanity...
Certain organisms can stand intense cold; some survive temperatures of -272° Centigrade. Cold is a preservative and an anesthetic; it slows metabolism, kills pain, halts the spread of infection. Grossman & Allen found that when they packed a gangrenous leg in ice before amputation, reducing its skin temperature from the normal 90° to 40°, they needed no other anesthetic; the danger of death from shock was greatly reduced and the leg healed better and quicker. Sometimes the refrigeration technique, by allowing time for drugs and other treatments to take effect, even saved the leg from amputation...
...years ago, neighbors were quick to notice that Mrs. Crocker and her three daughters were very dark. The whisper went round-the Crockers were Negroes. The truth was that Mrs. Crocker's father had been a full-blooded Iroquois. The daughters had inherited her dark hair, olive-brown skin, and black-brown eyes...
...Brass Check. While Washington society resembles that of St. Louis, San Francisco and Chicago in many of its skin-deep manifestations, there are differences. Washington's crowded beach is washed by the tide of politics, and every important official gets a social position to wear like a brass locker check. As a result the capital's reigning dowagers cannot really rule, but only sit above the high-water mark...
...elephantine wife, Kien runs out into the streets-of which he is as ignorant as a babe-and takes shelter in a dive inhabited solely by petty racketeers and prostitutes. Within a few weeks he has been fleeced of his last penny, beaten up again and reduced to skin & bones. When at last Kien's brother, a famed psychiatrist, gets wind of the professor's plight and restores him to his old life, it is too late-Kien, incurably mad, burns himself and his library to the ground...