Word: fitfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were most often found in older airmen. His conclusion was that normal wear and loss of teeth make jaws shut out of position, cause a partial closure of the Eustachian tubes. His remedy: an up-building of teeth by inlays and other dental means to make a youthful jaw-fit...
...aviators examined, Navy Dentist Lowry found that 83 had abnormal closure of the jaws. Most of them were older airmen and 33 of them had ear troubles. His remedy was simple. From wax impressions he made dental splints, bits of form-fitting vulcanite, which fit snugly over lower molars and hold fliers' jaws in proper position. Because normally these are needed only during flight a pilot can carry his in his pocket, slip it between his teeth before takeoffs, leave it in his locker after landing. Dr. Lowry said they work...
...agouized girl shown here is completely unconscious in a petit-mal epileptic fit, as the violent nature of the brain waves recorded in the moving picture indicates...
...most important scientific triumphs of recent times, Dr. Robert S. Schwab "26, assistant in Neurology at the Medical School, has devised a new machine to discover just what goes on during a petit-mal epileptic fit both inside and outside a patient's head...
Facial expressions and hand motions during a petit-mal fit are of interest because they give valuable information on the region of the brain which is causing the trouble...