Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stared and stared and couldn't get that thought out of his mind, repeating it over and over: "Those guys just starved to death. They just starved." It was easy to see that they were starved. There was just nothing on them, nothing but yellowish or brownish skin stretched, tightly over bones and cavities and all their members hung down loosely, as they lie on men who throw themselves down exhausted to the ground. Some men who were not dead sat idly on a bench nearby. A Frenchman who had drifted up just smiled and smiled in that curious...
...been 48,000 but more than half had been evacuated to the interior of Germany) who were as starved as the corpses in the crematorium yard. You cannot adequately describe starved men; they just look awful and unnatural. There was nothing but their bones beneath the tightly stretched skin, none of the roundedness, the curving and the flat places, the swelling muscles which men usually have. They walk or creep or lie around and seem about as animate as the barracks and fence posts and the stones on Buchenwald's bare, hard-packed earth, and when they are dead...
...patient was very weak and his veins hard to come at, "recourse should be had to the jugglars." Blistering and cauterizing were matters of course. In case of wounds, pus was considered a good thing and was sometimes encouraged by planting a piece of horsehair or thread under the skin...
...operation on the colonel, Dr. Frumkin got much the same results that can be achieved by regular hormone injections or by pellets of slow-dissolving hormones implanted under the skin (TIME, Oct. 3, 1938). Many U.S. doctors say that such a grafted gland will inevitably wither & die after, at most, four years...
...current Journal of Allergy, Drs. Bernhard Zondek (famed co-discoverer of a standard test for pregnancy) and Yehuda M. Bromberg of Jerusalem's Hadassah University Hospital tell how they made hormone skin tests on 165 women, about half of whom were suspected of hormone allergy. Sure enough, 68 of them proved auto-allergic. Encouragingly, however, the doctors found that graduated shots of the offending hormones would cure 50% of the auto-allergies and markedly improve another...