Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dandiest literary dactyls since Joyce's Malachai Mulligan. To earnest literary leftists of the decade, Auden, Spender and Isherwood were pronounced as one word, and in 1935 Isherwood and Auden were acclaimed for an amusing prose and verse play (The Dog Beneath the Skin) that twitted the British Establishment satisfactorily, even if it struck no telling blows in the class war. Isherwood's most promising work came four years later: Goodbye to Berlin, six wistful stories whose curiously passive hero announced that he was a camera...
...area can be pretreated with a hydrogen-peroxide solution injected into an artery, reported Baylor University's Dr. John T. Mallams. While limited in application, because no wide spread and few deep cancers can be at tacked this way, the method shows prom ise for cancers of the skin, mouth, and even some in the brain...
...cause of the trouble, explains Britain's Surgeon John Charnley, is either pressure that shuts off blood flow, or moist skin sticking to the bedsheet, which in turn sticks to the waterproof sheet beneath so that no moisture can escape. Dr. Charnley thought of trying a spongy sort of sheet made of nylon and polyvinyl chloride. But U.S. orthopedists had beaten him to the idea, with animal skins. Milwaukee's Dr. Frederick G. Gaenslen, copying an idea used by his orthopedist-father, uses close-cropped sheepskin...
...spaces in the wool allow the skin to dry, and ease the pressure on the spine," says Dr. Gaenslen. "I order a sheepskin for a patient the same as I'd order aspirin." A Buffalo surgeon uses deerskins, finds that they work well, and has no difficulty getting hunters in the neighborhood to donate them-a radio appeal once brought in hundreds. Two of the idea's biggest boosters are El Paso's Dr. Louis W. Breck and Dr. Saul Gonzalez, who have used sheepskins for thousands of patients. They have seen virtually no bed ulcers...
Dispensing with a nightshirt or sheet, the El Paso team insists that the patient's skin must lie directly on the cropped wool. Even in hot weather, this helps to keep the patient cool by letting air circulate. The sheepskin can be washed repeatedly, provided it is well rinsed. "It is remarkable," say Drs. Breck and Gonzalez, "that the method has not been adopted widely throughout the country...