Word: aftereffect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five in the afternoon, gradually recedes as evening draws on. Average course of the fever is six weeks, but it may disappear for several monthS, suddenly return, so that the average duration of the disease is reckoned at three to four months. Fatalities are few. The main aftereffect is weakening of the heart. Whether undulant fever causes abortion in humans is not yet known, but it does temporarily affect the genital tract...
...cannot find room enough to vibrate the vocal cords. Then, instead of a healthy, he-man holler, there emerges only a high, husky whisper. Before doctors discovered how to prevent this condition by the use of throat-tubes and toxoids* such stenosis (contraction) of the larynx was a frequent aftereffect of diphtheria and scarlet fever. Today, the largest number of laryngeal deformities is caused by accidents, not by disease...
...anesthetic which thus delighted Baltimore surgeons with its speed and freedom from ether's nauseating aftereffect is called evipan. Invented in Germany, it belongs to the barbituric acid group. Because other intravenous anesthetics have proved difficult to control its U. S. manufacturer, a Manhattan chemical company, is having it thoroughly tested before placing it on the market...
...Europe is freer, more democratic than before. It is a most curious aftereffect of the War: nobody would have expected it! Class distinctions are going. The haremlike isolation of women is going or gone. The Old Europe is dead, the New Europe not yet born. We are living in a time of transition...