Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common drink and an uncommon nut are both causes of severe skin inflammation, says the A.M.A. Journal. An Oakland (Calif.) man, 36, went to a party where the only drink served was gin and tonic, had five or six of them. Within two days his entire body was covered with a red or purplish rash, his face was unrecognizable, and his palms and soles were a mass of blisters. It took six days of treatment with cortisone, wet dressings and lotions before he could leave the hospital. Cause of his trouble: a rare, severe sensitivity to quinine. A Philadelphia woman...
Whipple said that the danger of punctures from comets is "not serious." A meteor-buffer device, invented by him several years ago, would solve the problem by providing the spaceship with a "second skin," which could be thrown off when punctured...
...Infections after burns delay healing, make skin grafts slough off faster, and may turn a superficial burn into a deep one. Researchers at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, searching for a locally applied antiseptic that would kill germs without destroying tissue, report best results with a weak solution of chlorhexidine, now use it in preference to all other methods of treating burns and scalds...
...tuning fork even when surrounding tissue cannot. Two-point discrimination (in itself a two-part sensory apparatus) can best be demonstrated with a schoolboy's compass whose steel and pencil points are an inch apart. Held against the back, this feels like a single object -the skin of the back has little two-point discrimination, and may need to have the compass spread three or four inches. But the hand can distinguish the two points when they are but a fraction of an inch apart-and there the senses of touch will also distinguish between the sharp steel...
Beneath this outer skin there is no set costume: anything dowdy and off-beat enough to be considered European will do. Such outfits as wide-welt corduroy suits cut in odd shapes seem popular, but ordinarily Continentalism can be spotted in smaller, more specific articles of dress. Foulard scarves and desert boots are, admittedly, more British than European, but they should be counted. Dark-colored shirts are being worn too much by the Cantabrigian Gentleman types now, with tweeds, to be much good to Continentalism; and grey-and khaki-colored work shirts are part of the bigger, people-yes movement...