Word: coughings
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Beardsley died the next year in France of the disease that made him cough so horribly that sunny morning. Many of his drawings were left to the late John Lane, publisher of the Yellow Book, who at that time had an office-boy named Mitchell Kennerley. Mr. Kennerley has put on sale in the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, of which he is president, a number of the drawings which Beardsley sold to John Lane...
...They take rides in the millions of tiny droplets that are sprayed from the mouth or nose when people cough, sneeze, laugh, sing or talk in a forcible manner. Scientific experiment has proven that droplets may be carried by air currents from a room downstairs to a room upstairs. Thus 'droplet infection...
...None the less, they have profited therefrom, Life Savers Inc. most of all. This company is even listed on the Manhattan Stock Exchange. It has 8,000 jobbers and dealers; it makes fruit lozenges, which lack the famed Life Saver "hOle";* and shortly it will sell a Life Saver Cough Drop...
...Nujol - you won't dare cough...
...over the radio last week about St. Vitus Dance, the mildest, most hopeful form of chorea. Children, especially girls, are susceptible to this disease, which is usually the expression of mental exhaustion, although it may be an end result of maldevelopment or of various contagious diseases?tonsillitis, measles, whooping cough. Cure is usually effected by quiet surroundings, rest in bed, full diet with plenty of fatty ingredients (milk, eggs), and above all the eliminating of the causative conditions. Relapses occur?the signs of trembling, twitching, dancing, muscular incoordination often reappear at the end of an exhausting school semester...