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Victims of chlorosis were usually maidens in their middle teens. Physically they always seemed well-nourished. Their skin, however, had a greenish-yellow tinge, especially in brunettes. There was a bluish cast to the whites of their eyes. Such chlorotic girls constantly complained of being tired. They had capricious appetites, often preferred sour things like pickles...
...Medical Association the young researchers announced excellent results with a combination of 10% carbon dioxide and 90% oxygen, administered through an ordinary ether mask. Not for plain disagreeable drunks is their treatment, emphasized the doctors, but only for desperate drunks with slow, jerky breath, faint pulse, dilated pupils, cold bluish skin...
...Chicago, because he was ''fed up on blondes, redheads and brunettes and wanted something different," Frank Polhamius, 28, applied for a license to marry Nadine Snow, 24, whose hair is bluish, and produced an agreement signed by her not to dye her hair for at least two years or until their first child is born...
...finances the war with a "patriotic" tax on exports; Bolivia's biggest export is tin produced by Patiño Mines & Enterprises Consolidated, Inc.; the hungriest consumer of Simon Patiño's tin is the U.S. and in the U.S. the second biggest buyer of the bluish-white metal is Mr. Cornish. Long allied with Senor Patiño, Mr. Cornish became vice president of Patiño Mines in 1924. Last week the corporate bond was made closer when he became board chairman...
...past before the advent of adequate treatment. That is purpura [purplish hemorrhage of blood into the skin]. We know that purpura occurs as a complication of malaria, that it is usually distributed symmetrically, that its usual location is on the hands and feet, and that it appears as ovoid, bluish, at times slightly elevated spots...