Word: dyspnea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Difficulty in breathing (dyspnea) is one of the most disturbing symptoms, and may indicate serious disease, e.g., asthma, pneumonia, congestive heart failure, anemia. Morphine provides quick relief, but may be dangerous. Other remedies, depending on the cause: adrenaline, blood transfusions, oxygen, removing obstructions from the windpipe...
...writes smoothly and lovingly. With a hush in his voice he describes The Hou". "But when evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain...
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