Word: coughing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food is seal, caribou, tea, above all, raw frozen fish. They like rotten food even better (it is spicier) but there are few limits to what they will swallow. They eat enormously-50 lb. of meat per day for a family and its dogs-and belch and hawk and cough and spit continuously when indoors...
...been a bewildering trial. Allegedly ridden with involutional melancholia, depressive psychosis, and heart disease, Hoppy sucked cough drops to stave off a cold. His alternate moans and mumbles kept the jury awake during eight weeks of corporate figures, which few could follow. The court stenographer admitted that his "mind had lost its continuity." Defense Attorney Fred A. Ironside Jr. owned to the same complaint. So confused was the court at times that even Howard Hopson smiled...
...drops; 2) nightly doses of mineral oil for constipation; 3) forced feedings of cod-liver or halibut-liver oil to rebellious children. Often the oil slides down the throat into the lungs, where it clogs up air sacs, inflames delicate tissues, forms abscesses and scars. Victims develop a hacking cough, run a low fever. Lipid or oil pneumonia is difficult to diagnose, for few physicians know much about it, and different oils cause different symptoms. In old people oil pneumonia is sometimes mistaken for cancer of the lung. Pneumonia caused by bacteria can be successfully combated with serums and sulfapyridine...
...Vice Versa (Princeton University Press; $3), grew out of several lectures on the organic basis of behavior which he delivered at Princeton last spring. The learned author, pleased by his Princeton audience, declared in his preface: "It did not dwindle perceptibly from lecture to lecture; it did not cough, shuffle or fidget, and it included no old ladies who arose and walked out noisily and indignantly...
...dwindle perceptibly from lecture to lecturer; it did not cough, shuffle or figet, and it included no old ladies who arose and walked out noisily and indignantly...