Word: catarrh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the semilegendary Hippocrates, father of Western medicine, writing 600 years after David, the oldster's lot was not a happy one: "Old men suffer from difficulty of breathing, catarrh accompanied by coughing, difficult micturition, pains at the joints, kidney disease, dizziness, apoplexy, cachexia [wasting], pruritus [itching] of the whole body, sleeplessness, watery discharges from bowels, eyes and nostrils, dullness of sight, cataract, hardness of hearing...
...letter after letter, he issued bulletins on "my phlebitis in the left leg," on palpitations of the heart ("Every minute my heart stops for several seconds and does not beat"), on hemorrhoids ("a vile, despicable malady"), and even recognized the psychosomatic nature of some of his ailments. ("My intestinal catarrh left me the moment I left Uncle's. Evidently the odor of sanctity has a weakening effect on my insides...
...Hydrocortisone (Compound F) is more potent than cortisone (Compound E) in treating some eye diseases, said four Philadelphia researchers; it has proved "dramatic" in checking cases of vernal conjunctivitis ("spring catarrh...
...doctor probably would have told Reynard Langrish that what he needed was a long vacation. Besides his chronic catarrh, he was having trouble with his hearing, and his sense of smell wasn't as sharp as it should be. Even cigarettes had begun to taste bad. What was worse, his home in the provincial English town where he lived with his deaf mother was getting on his nerves. After a day at his dull bank clerk's job, his restlessness would become intolerable, driving him out for long, aimless walks. On the rainswept night that the strapping young...
...many imaginative American entrepreneurs advertise: "Add a Fifth Freedom, freedom from---," and fill in the blank with such items as catarrh, termites, furnace-stoking, or more generally, toil of any kind? Surely a body devoted to general human welfare, such as the UN, cannot afford in its concern for the great to forget the small...