Word: coughing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Demands for cough drops show that they could go up 100%, but sales are kept down by the sugar shortage. > First-aid equipment sales are up 67.1% (80% bought by women). Coastal States, according to Drug Topics, have bought more than interior States, suggesting that the gauze-buying is a blitz-preparedness move...
...deliver to man. Chemicals can get them after they change their shapes and start dividing, prevent development of symptoms. If symptoms develop, chemicals can usually help a patient get well-at least from that attack-by killing them in the circulating blood. But a round of malaria, unlike whooping cough, does not prevent a patient from coming down with it again...
Verbose Matt Neely was a Senator in 1940, with two years to go, when he saw his political machine was beginning to cough and fall apart. So he went home to run for Governor against a Democrat with a comic-book name: H. Guy Kump. He won. Out of State jobs went Kump followers, in went Neely men. This year, satisfied, Matt Neely ran again for Senator...
...stern disciplinarian, but he has the devotion of his men. Famous are his orders to his staff at the beginning of a conference: "I do not approve of coughing or smoking. There will be no smoking. For two minutes you may cough. Thereafter coughing will cease." Nor does he drink...
General symptoms are fever (usually 100°-103°), cough, chilliness, headache (often severe). Lung inflammation appears within the first few days but is seldom as extensive as in pneumonia. Sulfa drugs don't help the patient and sometimes increase a patient's misery. Treatment with pneumonia serums has also proved futile...