Word: croup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly after noon, Lyndon invited a few reporters into his 17th-floor hospital room. Propped up against the pillows and inhaling deeply from a "croup kettle" that spewed steam, he reassured everyone that he was just fine. Said he: "I wouldn't hesitate right now to put on my britches and go back to the office if there was something that needed to be done...
Parainfluenza 2 is one of the common causes of croup in children. Whether it can reinfect them or attack adults is not yet known. Parainfluenza 3 behaves much like type 1. But all these viruses are so new to science that medical researchers still do not know such important details as the differences in their incubation periods after they infect a victim. New York City's concurrent outbreaks of flu and paraflu may provide some useful clues. Pediatricians have noted that parents tend to come down with a moderately severe illness about six days after a child gets sick...
...Emerson: The Artist of the Prudential," and to Peter P. Brooks 2G, $500, essay entitled "The Objective Life of the Novel";--GROUP II (Social Studies), to Charles S. Master 1G, $500, essay entitled "The Ideology of Discontent: Nationalism, conservatism, and Fascism in the French Right Before Vicky";--and in CROUP III (National Science), no award
...that Dr. Hudson believes that all house calls should be abolished. "Sure." she said. "I make some house calls. Croup, convulsions and certain accidents bring me on the double. Sometimes I go out just as a favor to a good patient...
...wife, or his horse. The nostrum peddlers had a sure cure for it-and generally the same cure. With no legal restrictions, the patent medicine men made limitless claims. One ointment boasted that it could cure "ague in the face, swelled breasts, sore nipples, bronchitis, sore throats, quinsy, croup, felons, ringworms, burns, scalds, shingles, erysipelas, salt rheum, piles, inflammation of the eyes and bowels, bruises, fresh cut wounds, bilious cholic, scrofulous and milk-leg sores, inflammatory rheumatism and gout." Such was the gilded age of the patent medicine in America, as told by Historian Gerald Carson...