Word: catarrh
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...hospital with an illness called camp fever; he never returned to his regiment. "When he came home, he looked like a dead boy," declared the affidavit of an Ohio friend. For years after the war, Seif wrote to Washington requesting a pension increase, complaining of neuralgia, lumbago, catarrh, headaches and heart trouble. By 1927, the year he died, Seif was receiving $90 a month, an amount granted, according to notes from a nameless bureaucrat, because he was blind and totally helpless. "I didn't know that," says Konecny, shaking her head sadly. Turning over the last papers, she sees...
...again, I'd write this letter. And now you've done it again. You've printed (on page 13 of your April 15 Books Supplement) your favorite picture of Jimmy Carter, with his eyes close, his nose wrinkled, his throat straining against a post-nasal catarrh...
...Sears catalogue lists a variety of capsules, tinctures, pills and boluses calculated to cure almost any known ailment, physical or mental. There were worm cakes and a highly touted microbe killer ("Will prevent LaGrippe, Catarrh, Consumption, Malaria, Blood Poison, Rheumatism and all disorders of the blood"). There was also an elixir "guaranteed to destroy all desire for liquor" and a magical tonic called "Peruvian wine of cocoa" that was recommended "if you wish to accomplish double the amount of work or have to undergo an unusual amount of hardship." Arsenic wafers were offered to tone up the complexion...
...missing at the officers' bar, and he raises unprintable hell. World regularly mocks British dead-face understatement about things that count v. British redneck rage over trifles. Bayliss does a kind of tonsillectomy of his part. He wheezes, bleeps, snorts, and plays endless comic tunes on his catarrh. He is like an animated poster propagandizing the inanity, silliness and stupidity of the military...
...troubles as chronicled by Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, are readily recognizable. It sometimes seems as if most of the U.S. population were engaged in disassembling each other's psyches, second-guessing motivations, and ferreting out symptoms. As the Frenchman worries about his liver and the Englishman complains about his catarrh, the American is concerned with his mental health. No other nation has so high a quotient of mind probers of one kind or another; there are some 40,000 professionally recognized psychiatrists and psychologists. Serious, important work is done by these practitioners-at least, by most of them-but their...