Word: coughs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...worst thing for a cough may be cough medicine, says the Medical Letter, a biweekly newsletter edited by physicians for physicians. Taking aim at nonprescription cough syrups and elixirs, which contain as many as five drugs, the editors warn that "there are no reports of well-controlled trials" showing that such mixtures are effective. Nor, warns the Letter, are they safe...
Many ailments have fallen victim to medical progress. Improved sanitary conditions have virtually eliminated typhoid fever; vaccines have made poliomyelitis a rarity. Antibiotics have all but routed mastoiditis, an inflammation of bone cells behind the inner ear and, along with vaccines, helped bring whooping cough and diphtheria under control. A number of other diseases have just disappeared. Tuberculous pneumonia, the "galloping consumption" that consumed many literary and operatic heroines, has all but galloped off the medical scene. The mysterious "sweating sickness" that swept through France as late as 1907, has apparently vanished...
Titled Sound Diagnosis, Dr. Weinberg's record is a heart-rending collection of the sounds of sickness. On it is the grunting cough of a child with hyaline membrane disease, a frequently fatal condition that occurs in premature infants. Also included is the feline mewing of a baby with cat-cry syndrome, a congenital defect that produces abnormal development of the brain, and the wheezing gasp of an asthmatic infant. Only one of the sounds on the 45-r.p.m. disk makes for pleasant listening. Obviously included for purposes of comparison, it reproduces the lusty cry of a healthy newborn...
...your article "Smog Goes Global" [Aug. 10J, you state that "the world will end with a cough, a wheeze, a mass gasp of emphysema." Not so. Poetically, and ironically enough, it will end with a whimper-of a newborn baby. Pollution is only the major symptom of the very fatal disease called overpopulation...
...world will end with a cough, a wheeze, a mass gasp of emphysema. So it seemed last week, a bad week, as dirty air smothered cities around the earth. Millions of smog-choked city dwellers began to feel like canaries in coal mines-obliged to perish in order to warn others of potential disaster. Rarely before had man's dependence on the fragile biosphere been so dramatically illustrated on a global scale...