Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about all the Negroes with family resemblances to the Grandolets, he silenced her with a look so black and a voice so low and level that she was drenched with fear. When they decided to have a child, Victoria was conscious of an odd chilliness crawling slowly over her skin, suddenly realized: "She had never liked to be touched by anyone. . . . She did not love Niles Grandolet. . . ." After their son was born, Niles and Victoria lived apart...
...Skins. Dr. Sano grafted skin on rats' chests or the napes of their necks, the areas that move the most. She first removed a small piece of skin from the test area and waited four days for healing to start. For grafting, she used a bit of skin from somewhere else on the same rat. As if using a new patent glue, she painted plasma on the grafting area, extract on the under side of the graft. Then she put the graft in place and held it a while with warm, wet cloths...
Just after an operation, ordinary skin grafts slip over the tissues beneath; but Dr. Sano's grafts stick so tightly that even a gentle pull with forceps does not move them. For a dressing she uses vaselined gauze topped with a cork ring (not so tight as to hinder circulation...
...Livers. When Dr. Sano announced her glue last July in the American Journal of Surgery, it was already being used successfully on Temple University Hospital skin-graft patients. In Science last week, she and Surgeon Clarence A. Holland made a new announcement...
...liver cut by a bullet, a blow or an operation. The doctors tried it on dog livers first, now use the method on people. The raw surfaces are painted with the mixture and held together about three minutes. Any spot still bleeding or unstuck is repainted. As with skin-grafting, results are 100% successful: "By the end of ten days, it is often difficult to find the line of incision without a microscope...