skin

• Even the skin is all torn from the shot No, we might as well take it along. —  The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods
• When the tissues have been bruised or chafed after such fashion, especially if the surface of the skin has been at the same time broken, and any pus-organism is either present in the hair-follicle, like the white coccus, or rubbed into it by a finger or finger-nail which has just been sucked in the mouth, used to pick the nose, or possibly engaged in dressing some wound, or cutting meat, or handling fertilizer, then all the materials for an explosion are at hand CHAPTER XVI CANCER, OR TREASON IN THE BODY-STATE The imagination of the race has ever endowed Cancer with a peculiar individuality of its own. —  Preventable Diseases
• Besides the skin is a breathing organ, and it is most important that air should readily reach it (_see Tight Lacing Long trains should not be worn, as they are most effective agents for sweeping up germs of diphtheria, consumption, etc. Skirts should not be hung from the waist, but from the shoulders, and should be light in weight. —  Papers on Health
• No, no, the skin is yours. —  The Mission; or Scenes in Africa
• And her right knee felt as though the skin was all abrased and the cap fairly cracked. —  The Corner House Girls at School

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