Word: asthma
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...instance Ngo Ba Thanh, an authority on international law trained at Columbia Law School, has been repeatedly imprisoned for her outspoken opposition to the Thieu regime. Although her damp cell at Thu Duc prison has aggravated her already severe asthma, Mrs. Thanh refuses to surrender her beliefs...
...this point. Mrs. Thanh began discussing the situation at Thu Duc. the prison she was being returned to.) Mrs. Thanh: At Thu Duc the conditions are reluctantly better. Because it is not an interrogation place. But lying on the floor and the humidity is very bad for asthma The food--(we get) one supply for a week--and the nutrition is very bad for the health. But I still am very good morally. I know what I am doing is right...
...acre farm all the teacher trainees must bend their backs to experimental rice crops. Under the supervision of experienced peasants, they practice new techniques of planting and hybridization. Up the hill, at the school's 100-pig breeding sty, a dozen young women were learning how to relieve pig asthma through acupuncture...
Tokyo...Seven-year-old Seiichi Yasuda of the heavily industrialized city of Yokkaichi, Japan, recently collapsed and suffocated despite doctors' attempts to revive him. The cause of death, according to city authorities: air pollution. Young Seiichi, an asthma sufferer since the age of 3, became Yokkaichi's 41st officially designated pollution fatality...
...removing the causes of congestion or antagonism." In acupuncture the insertions are not necessarily close to the pain or its apparent cause. For a headache, it may be the big toe that is punctured. Adherents also claim success in treating, among other things, toothache, influenza, dysentery, nephritis, deafness, blindness, asthma, eczema, diabetes and high blood pressure...