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Word: mouthes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aminophylline, a valuable drug for treatment of asthma, can be dangerous when given by mouth or intravenously. For convenience, many doctors have taken to giving it to children in rectal suppositories, but this too can be hazardous, warned Detroit's Dr. Anthony C. Nolke. In the A.M.A. Journal he reported 21 cases of severe illness (vomiting, raging thirst and maniacal agitation) and four deaths from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jul. 2, 1956 | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...skin-burning rays, said the University of Chicago's Dermatologist Stephen Rothman, and they can be used in anti-sunburn lotions. Also, they permit tanning without burning. As some South Pacific veterans will attest, antimalarial drugs such as Atabrine also protect against sunburn when taken by mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Research Reports | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...small bowel), Atlanta's Dr. Murdock Equen made him swallow a tiny but powerful Alnico permanent magnet attached to a string. When the magnet grabbed the nail, Dr. Equen pulled the string and slowly worked the nail up through the digestive tract and out the boy's mouth. In seven years he took assorted hardware from the insides of 16 other youngsters, but then met a stubborn case where a nail had been stuck in a boy's duodenum for three weeks. The little magnet would not budge it. So the doctor got two bigger magnets, placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Research Reports | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...Mouth. Listeners are fond of giving performers names that characterize them, and fans think nothing of walking 100 miles or so to see what the voice looks like. One listener recently walked all the way from the interior of the Congo to see Alick Nkata, a young CABS singer. Having stayed three weeks as a house guest, the man left, saying, "Now I can tell my village that I alone have seen Big Mouth." One announcer is known as Umfumfumfu (Man WTho Never Gets Tired of Talking). Another is called Maker of Jokes That Sometimes Are Funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Iron That Catches Words | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

Adorable Blood. His thoughts move on to love, to the tender day he found Princess Sunday eviscerating a buffalo: "She looked so adorable, with blood smeared over her face . . . She sliced liver off and he plopped it into his mouth, a piece as large as one of his hands, and he chewed and gulped and choked, with liver juices bursting out of the corner of his mouth, his eyes winking at her contentedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Moose & Men | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

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