Word: coughings
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...last night while driving in Walthem. So drest myself, and back to the stump where, very sad, I left him. But, lo, the big bird was gone! Yet I know he must be dead for he did hoot violently when I to pick him up and then he to cough up some mouse's parts and then to close his white eyes and hoot no more. This I do not like too much for I have heard evil things of those witchy birds...
Even so, California last week had a great collection of other woes. Epidemic throughout the State were mild types of influenza and measles. Scarlet fever was increasing slightly. Epidemics of mumps, chicken pox and whooping cough reached their peaks last month, were last week on the decline. Gonorrhea has taken a great leap in California, half the new cases occurring in Los Angeles...
...classes the professor brooks no coughing, shuffling or other disturbance. At the first noise he will call time out for students "with no nervous control" to cough, sneeze, sniffle, blow noses or leave the room. Afternoons he delights in tramping through the stacks of Widener Library, knocking off all feet which he finds on desks...
There are, however, people who continue to bleed at the nose despite all procedures and medication. The bleeding is a lifelong habit with them. A cold or a cough is enough to start their noses running blood. The epistaxis goes on for hours, days...
Tics, or habitual spasms of certain muscles, are another nervous derangement of childhood. The child may shake his head, nod, frown, scowl, blink, grimace, twist his mouth, sniff, hack, swallow, cough, sigh, hiccough, wiggle his ears, jerk his limbs, scratch himself. Tiqueurs are seldom less than six years old. They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations...