Word: angina
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...such standard remedies as breathing in & out of a paper bag and eating ice cream. Doctors at Greene County Memorial Hospital have tried sedatives, anesthesia, benzyl benzoate (a relaxing drug), quinidine sulfate (a quinine-like drug used to regulate abnormal heart rhythms), amyl nitrite (a drug used to treat angina pectoris...
Died. Sophie Paschkis Lehar, 69, wife of Operetta King Franz Lehar; of angina; in Zurich, Switzerland. Lehar refused a Nazi demand that he leave Sophie (a Jewess), escaped persecution in Germany because his Merry Widow was Hitler's favorite operetta...
...concoction of hydrogen peroxide and glycerin, developed by Dr. Ethan Allen Town of Boston Dispensary, seems to be effective against a number of skin diseases and certain tubercular infections. The mixture has shown best results against diabetic ulcers, tuberculous neck glands, Vincent's angina, tonsillitis, impetigo, boils...
...operation is now prescribed for a wide variety of ailments, from excessive sweating to high blood pressure. Nobody knows how many thousands of sympathectomies surgeons perform each year; there are an estimated 1,000 in Manhattan alone. Admittedly the operation is a life-saver in many cases of gangrene, angina pectoris, hypertension. But some sympathectomies may make men sterile. And because a sympathectomy reduces pain, some doctors consider it insidiously dangerous, e.g., a patient could have a perforating ulcer without pain. The experts agree that sympathectomy, like the other nerve-cutting operations, is getting out of hand...
...enormously in the 20th Century? Why did the stillbirth rate in Wales, and tuberculosis in Britain, drop sharply during the war? Why do workingmen die of stomach and skin cancer twice as often as professional men? Why do doctors have twelve times as high a death rate from angina pectoris as farm workers...