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...prove of more value in treatment of whooping-cough than any other remedy, including vaccine, according to Drs. Henry I. Bowditch and Ralph D. Leonard, who have just published a preliminary report of their experiments in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Out of 26 active cases, ranging in age from 3 months to 40 years, which received three or four applications at intervals, 15 per cent were promptly cured, the spasms disappearing entirely, 70 per cent were relieved, and 15 per cent remained unchanged. It is too early and the data are too meager to make definite predictions...
...spite of anarchy and assassination and rumours of war, infant Poland has successfully passed through the attacks of political measles and whooping-cough, and seems destined to grow up a strong member of the family of nations. Once established it will prove an effectual buffer between the central-European countries--more effective than the Belgium of 1914, because larger and stronger. And if, as has sometimes been claimed the true pessimist is really an optimist because everything will turn out better than he expects, the Daily Mail's correspondent can look forward to seeing in Poland the one hopeful sign...
...degrees is quite warm enouth"-beyond that point men become lazy, and are apt to done in lectures. It gives further words of wisdom: "Don't go to any public meetings if you have a cold"-an important piece of advice; and "Don't sneze or cough except into a handkerchief"-if the student is wise, he does not cough at all during certain lectures in English course-for coughing has often been called "an unnecessary luxury...
...Offer Prizes for the Best Cough and the Loudest Handkerchief Operations. The main reading room and Lower Widener are practically the best sort of proving grounds for those coughs which are above normal strength. In those rooms, everyone else tries to be quiet. That is the psychological moment to test out a rippling, rolling, resounding cough or a crackling, recalcitrant nose...
...concert cough should be added to the theatre cough, against which a campaign has begun in Paris, and the movement made world-wide. Spells of coughing which sweep audiences at plays and concerts are largely the result of suggestion, as almost any one can muster up a sufficient tickling of the throat during the winter season to justify some sort of noise. Physicians say that the greater part of such demonstrations can be suppressed without the slightest possibility of injury to any one. What is most needed is a conscious effort on the part of those tempted to follow...