Word: croup
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...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...
...breathe humid air as much as possible. She did-by sitting in a rocking chair next to a hot shower for half an hour at a stretch. Her son Marc, 6, came down with a similar but milder case; mother and son shared a room, with three croup kettles steaming through the night...
...Francisco last week Gustav J. Beck of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center manned a demonstration booth to show general practitioners how easily they can now do just this in their own offices-with gadgets that look like babies' croup kettles. They generate a "superheated Aerosol," a mist containing minute droplets of 15% salt solution and 20% propylene glycol (a wetting agent) at 125° F. The patient inhales this hot fog for half an hour. The salt solution draws out fluid from bronchial cells and from the myriad tiny air-exchange cells (alveoli) in his lungs...