Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief dangers to a burn victim are: 1) loss of protein from burned tissues, i.e., starvation; 2) infection, usually picked up when the burns are being dressed; 3) shock. The treatment casts aside not only elaborate ointments but the standard prewar practice of debriding (scraping away) the charred skin and flesh. Specialists now recognize that most preparations doctors used to smear on burns were either a hindrance or dangerous...
...aged mother came to see the beggar who claimed to be their relative. They gave him a good bath and looked him over in the sunlight. Yes, there were the old scars. There was the Kumar's broken tooth, his birthmark and the familiar scales of the family skin disease on his feet. Reluctantly they claimed the beggar as their...
...almost invisible speck of radioactive carbon-a millicurie*- became the first byproduct of atom-bomb-making to be released for medical research. Last week's buyer (at $367 plus handling charges and deposit on the bottle): the Barnard Skin and Cancer Hospital of St. Louis, which will use it only in research. It will not cure cancer...
Physicians, says Alvarez, too often dismiss such patients as neurotic or hypochondriac, argue that a stroke is impossible without such classic signs as muscular weakenings or loss of feeling in parts of the skin. But Alvarez insists that the brain can sustain thousands of tiny strokes with no symptoms beyond changes in personality. Nothing can be done to cure such patients, he admits, but doctors can emphasize that strokes may be far apart...
...Kremlin hurriedly sent to Kharkov for Professor V. Vorobiov, who had developed some of the world's finest injection needles to demonstrate to his anatomy students the workings of blood vessels. With his needles Vorobiov and an assistant named Schabadach injected a solution of formalyn sublimate, skin-colored dyes and ordinary embalming fluid directly into Lenin's skin and tissue, centimeter by centimeter. The painfully minute "tattooing" operation took a month to finish. For years Schabadach made monthly visits to check the body's condition and add further injections as needed...