Word: houres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They suspect that the violent pain arises from some kink in the nervous system. Standard treatment is rest, easy living. Anything may bring on an attack: anger, bad news, indigestion, physical strain, and each attack may be the last. A victim may live several decades, may die in an hour. To ease their agonizing pain, most sufferers carry a supply of tiny nitroglycerin tablets in their pockets...
...persevere to conquer,' she will communicate her belief. She will see also that the child has no fluids to drink after five o'clock, that he empties his bladder before he gets into bed, and that he is roused to void completely again at a later hour. Punishment is out of place." Each child should have a chart on which he pastes a gold star "in celebration of every dry night...
...enough, the Lancet prescribed one-quarter to two grains of ephedrine sulphate at bedtime, depending on the child's age and bed-wetting capacities. "Tincture of belladonna is useful . . . given in amounts of ten minims [drops] for the younger child, and 15 minims for the older, half an hour before bedtime. The dose is increased weekly by five minims until eneuresis stops...
...after eight weeks, Britain was beginning to have trouble making the evacuation stay put. Country schools were so crowded that many children got only an hour or two of schooling a day. Overcrowded also were the houses in which they were billeted. Householders were horrified to find that their visitors had to be deloused, put up a struggle against taking a bath, often displayed questionable manners...
Manhattan's Pratt School of Business bestowed on Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia a testimonial of special merit. Reason: 30 years ago it had taught him shorthand and typing in 30 hours. The Mayor's counter-testimonial: the day he finished his 30-hour course (cost $7.50), he got a job with Abercrombie & Fitch at $18 a week...