Word: catarrh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: "As everyone knows" (except "one" gallomaniac on your staff) some kinds of pollen, when inhaled, produce in pollen-sensi-TIME, July 25, 1927 tive persons an inflammation of the respiratory mucous membranes, variously known catarrh, as etc., and "hay-fever" altogether rose-cold" distinct from "summer" "strawberry-rash" which is a skin eruption, caused by eating strawberries. Obviously the last-mentioned malady has no connection with pollen. A few pollen grains may accidentally be present, but strawberries are not inhaled ; not even by French gourmets.* Pollen in plants corresponds to semen in animals, and is produced only...
...Coffee set himself up at Davenport as an "eye, ear, nose and throat" specialist and began a new technique of gull-baiting. He bought full page space in newspapers and thereby gold-knuckled editorial prudence. He called himself a specialist and offered to treat "deafness, head noises from nasal catarrh," and only the American Medical Association objected. Such full page advertisements have become his chief means, with his "sucker list," of exploitation.* Quick flipping of newspaper files show that from January to April of this year he used full page spreads in at least the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
...medicinal springs at Aix are famed for their efficiency in curing eczema, rheumatism, catarrh, gout, and scrofula...
...consisted largely of a weak aqueous solution of sulphuric acid (about 9/10 of 1%) and sulphurous acid (3/10 of 1%). It was exploited as a cure for 26 specific diseases of the widest pos- sible range, as well as for "all diseases that begin with fever-all inflammations -all catarrh-all contagious diseases- all the results of impure or poisoned blood." The public-and Mr. Smith-were deprived of this omnipotent fluid by the Pure Food and Drug...
...deaf mutes in the U.S.?425 per million population. Total deafness, however, is rare. Even among these unfortunate mutes, from 15 to 20% have a useful amount of hearing. Affliction of the ear, found in innumerable forms and degrees, is commonly caused by scarlet fever, measles, tooth-cutting, catarrh, loud noises, old age. There have been occasional cases of apparent total deafness, arising from an unknown cause, which disappeared after a few years in a manner equally mysterious...