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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Editor Schneck and his colleagues recommend using hypnosis to get at a wide range of psychosomatic illnesses-from stomach upsets, headaches and skin disorders to menstrual troubles, morning sickness and difficulties with breast feeding. In surgery, they say, hypnosis can be not only a valuable anesthetic, but can serve to distinguish between true & false complaints of physical illness. (In the case of the shipwrecked sailor, it served a dual purpose...
Sudden Tears. At first meeting, Comedienne Russell seems to be all legs and six feet tall (her actual height: 5 ft. 6¾ in.; weight, 113 lbs.). Her dark hair is worn short. Her skin has an Irish whiteness, with a memory of freckles across the nose, and her eyes widen and contract with theatrical exaggeration to accent the tumbling flow of her talk. When she tells an anecdote, gesturing extravagantly, she plays all the roles involved, right down to such spear-carriers as waiters and scrubwomen...
...Surgeons at the University of Illinois' Neuropsychiatric Institute finished the job of enclosing Rodney Dee Brodie's brain with skin flaps, in his fifth operation since he was separated from his Siamese twin, Roger (TIME, Dec. 29). Rodney rallied well, is expected soon to begin crawling around like a normal baby, though it will be months before he gets a hard top for his skull...
Vanishing Cream. For workers whose skins are sensitive to industrial materials and housewives who are allergic to soaps or detergents, Abbott Laboratories of North Chicago, Ill. brought out a greaseless protective'skin cream, Covicone, that will not wash off. The cream has a nitrocellulose base, does not clog pores and permits perspiration. When applied twice daily for two weeks, an application every one or two days thereafter maintains the protection. Price: 90? for a 1-oz. tube...
...cause is a simple optical principle. The burning effect of the bomb's heat on exposed skin diminishes as the square of the distance (twice as far away, it is one-fourth as strong). But the eye is a lens that concentrates heat and light in a spot on the retina. As distances increase, the spot grows smaller but remains as bright. At four miles away, a nuclear fireball 90 feet across forms a brilliant spot on the retina 1/300th of an inch in diameter. This is larger than the fovea centralis, the part of the retina that...