Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later have to face the problems of acne's unsightly pimples and blackheads, could find helpful advice in the first book on the subject for laymen readers. Challenging wild-eyed advertisements and "sure cures," Dr. Herbert Lawrence, San Francisco dermatologist, discusses acne simply and thoroughly in The Skin Problem Facing Young Men and Women (Timely Publications...
What Lawrence advises is consultation with a qualified physician, then faithful following of the course he prescribes. Effective treatment usually takes a long time, includes a combination of processes: the removal of excessive oil from the skin by the gentle application of soap and hot water, proper extraction of blackheads, plenty of sunlight, proper diet with a firm limit on starches, sweets and fats, adequate exercise and rest...
More specific treatments, which are sometimes effective but should be overseen by a competent doctor, are glandular extracts, vitamin A, drying lotions for the skin, X rays and ultraviolet lamps...
...Lawrence, is the realization by doctors and parents that acne can have serious psychic consequences, that it is often intimately connected with the emotional upsets and tensions of early adulthood and that, unless properly handled, "severe acne brands as much of a scar on the personality as on the skin...
Through their culture runs the pervasive influence of the Negro and Indian. Brazil draws no color lines. From the 8th to the 11th Century, the Portuguese had lived as subjects of the swarthy, highly cultured Moors, and they had come to look upon dark skin as the mark of beauty. As a result, races intermarried freely. Some of Brazil's greatest statesmen, intellectuals and artists have had Negro blood. Says Brazil's famed Sociologist Gilberto Freyre: the Brazilian "has a certain fondness . . . for honoring differences...