Word: mucous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vera Stone, 18, Tennessee girl, hiccoughed. She acked, eked, icked, ooked, ucked until she nearly died. Her diaphragm jerked until it ached and her arms and hands went numb. Doctors at Ripley, her home, and Memphis, where she was hospitalized, sought causes-irritation of the stomach's mucous membranes, affection of the phrenic (diaphragm) nerve, peritonitis, sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica), methyl chloride escaping from a mechanical refrigerator. None of these were causative. They made her gulp cold water and hold her breath. That usually stops hiccoughs, but not Vera Stone...
...finger of an infected nurse and injected the germs into a 25-year-old woman. She developed scarlet fever. The Dicks developed a scarlet fever antitoxin. Last week's Germans, Professors Heinrich Finkelstein and Fritz Meyer of Berlin, claimed to have found the specific hemolytic streptococcus in the mucous membranes of the infected pharynx,* and from it developed a specific immunizing antitoxin...
...killed meat did they subsist during the week, and nothing other than fresh meat were they to eat for fourteen days. If at the end of a fortnight, none had scurvy, if in no case were legs and thighs splotched with extravasated blood, if no gums swelled spongily, if mucous membranes oozed no blood (scorbutic symptoms), then Explorer Stefansson would have proved-better than biologists could have proved in experiments with rats-that meat, at least freshly killed meat, contains Vitamin C and prevents scurvy, scourge of seafarers and Arctic explorers...
...customer's child strangling in the same condition as was Mrs. Lambert's. Firemen had helped save that first child by means of a pulmotor. Patrolman Di Lorenzo remembered how the pulmotor worked. He placed his mouth to that of the child and sucked. A plug of mucous came loose; he spat it away. He blew into her throat, sucked; blew, sucked-until she could breathe by herself and live...
Sirs: "As everyone knows" (except "one" gallomaniac on your staff) some kinds of pollen, when inhaled, produce in pollen-sensi-TIME, July 25, 1927 tive persons an inflammation of the respiratory mucous membranes, variously known catarrh, as etc., and "hay-fever" altogether rose-cold" distinct from "summer" "strawberry-rash" which is a skin eruption, caused by eating strawberries. Obviously the last-mentioned malady has no connection with pollen. A few pollen grains may accidentally be present, but strawberries are not inhaled ; not even by French gourmets.* Pollen in plants corresponds to semen in animals, and is produced only...