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Word: tattooer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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Tattooing. Women, and men too, who have had their cheeks tattooed a permanent pink and their lips scarred into a stiff cupid's bow have become problems to the physician. The needles with which the tattooer punctures his customer's flesh are often unsterilized, the dyes that he soaks into the needle-pits polluted. Frequent results: gangrene, tetanus (lockjaw), leprosy, amputation, tuberculosis, blood poisoning.?Marvin D. Shie of Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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