Word: coryza
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Medical editors frown upon literary graces as Puritans frowned upon dancing. Almost all medical reports are warty with Greek and Latin jargon: "Etiologic factors" for "causes," "acute coryza" for "the common cold," "osseous structures" for "bones." Yet the modern physician's bible, Sir William Osier's Principles and Practice of Medicine, is a model of warm and lucid prose-human language conveying the fears and torments of sick human beings...
...Chemical Foundation gave Johns Hopkins for a five-year investigation of the Common Cold (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928), last week produced three clear facts: 1) colds are not the result of chemical changes in the body as has been theorized; 2) colds are not directly caused by micrococcus coryza described by Dr. John Arthur Franklin Pfeiffer of Baltimore (TIME, June 23), or by any other visible germ; 3) colds are apparently caused by a virus, which the finest of filters cannot trap and whose source has not yet been ascertained...
...that Sparta has left. I expected to find a countryside as dour as [the ancient Spartans], but no ?great fertility, vines bearing enormous grapes. And I crossed the Taigeta, which is something of a mountain, I assure you, and arrived at a place called something like 'Coryza'?the women crossed themselves when they saw me and drunken priests kissed me on the mouth...
Died. Zalophus ("Buster") Californianus, 22, dean of sea-lions and headliner of the Battery Park Aquarium; in Manhattan, of coryza...
...Bronchitis, 2 19 20 19 13 14 21 17 7 1 133 Chicken-pox, 1 1 2 Cold--unclassified, 3 23 37 18 26 34 33 31 18 223 Constipation, 1 5 2 1 3 2 2 3 4 23 Coryza, 1 32 59 29 38 35 40 43 18 299 Dentistry, 1 2 8 10 3 4 7 3 4 1 43 Diarrhoea, 14 46 18 13 14 21 17 14 157 Diphtheria...