Word: coughings
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Last week a frail and broken woman lay in a remote sanatorium in the French Alps under the shadow of Mt. Blanc. A racking cough had settled in her chest. Pernicious anemia was in her blood. Perhaps long exposure to the deadly element she and her husband had discovered was taking its toll. But Marie Curie's mind was clear and she was ready to die. She had come far since her birth in Poland 66 years ago. In Warsaw her father had been a physics professor, her mother principal of a girls' school. Their daughter Marie...
Asafetida suspended in a little sack from the neck to prevent acute infectious diseases like measles, diphtheria, whooping cough...
...According to some historians the massacre of the boulevards resulted from a mistaken command. The official responsible for the fatal order (perhaps Napoleon himself-I forget the exact details) is said to have been suffering from a severe cold, and to have exclaimed "Ma sacré toux!"-"My wretched cough"-which was misinterpreted by a zealous officer as "Massacrez tous," or "Kill everybody...
...cases in the College have occurred within the last five days, the Hygiene Department has sent out instructions to all those known to have been exposed, with a description of the early symptoms of the disease. The symptoms warned against are running nose, watery eyes, dry cough, fever, and headache. It is stated that these appear during the three days before the appearance of the rash, and that it is at this time that the disease is most contagious...
...always use a handkerchief when you sneeze or cough...