Word: asthma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Hilary Aidan St. George Saunders, 53, official British war historian; of asthma; in Nassau. Under the pen names of Francis Beeding and David Pilgrim, Saunders collaborated with John Palmer on some 40 thrillers (Eleven Were Brave), but it was his anonymous histories of Britain's role in World War II (The Battle of Britain; Combined Operations) that reached the top of the bestseller lists (more than 12 million copies...
Ivan Bunin, poet, novelist and aristocrat, is one of the last of these echoes of the old Russia. He is 80, almost bedridden with asthma, and he lives out his last years of exile in a Paris flat, half-forgotten by the world since he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1933. What he has to say now, in Memories and Portraits, does more than evoke the people and places of his own past. Sometimes gently, sometimes tartly, it conveys the tragedy of a whole generation of intellectuals of good will...
...your head. My desire to eat the wrong foods is gone. I don't have to worry about diets." Mrs. Beatrice Barnett dropped 16 Ibs. in two weeks, boasted: "I've lost absolutely all taste for sweets and in-between snacks. It's helped my bronchial asthma too, and I sleep nights...
...first place, says Feinberg, the field is a huge one. There are in the U.S., he estimates, about 10 million allergy victims; about 2,000,000 have asthma, up to 7,000,000 have hay fever and the rest an assortment of hives, eczema, sinus disorders, reactions to foods, allergic headaches, contact allergies such as ivy poisoning, serum sickness and sensitivity to drugs...
Like most allergists, Dr. Feinberg delights in the detective work of tracking down the cat dander, hair oil, dye, tanning material, feather dust and metals which have been convicted of causing some of his patients' allergies. Although ACTH has proved a big help in cases of asthma and related allergies, Dr. Feinberg reports that ACTH itself has caused some allergic reactions...