Word: mucous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some relief. For a stuffy nose, drops are helpful (though sometimes they boomerang and cause renewed stuffiness). Aspirin soothes headache, fever and muscle pains which go with a cold. Alcohol, the Journal concedes, "in reasonable doses," expands the blood vessels and restores circulation to chilled skin and mucous membrane. But the old standby, rest in bed, is still the treatment doctors like best...
...take a deposition, General Castaneda spoke up: "I respectfully request my immediate release. My eyes are sick. I fear I am going blind." The court appointed two doctors to examine him. Their report: a boyhood injury has all but robbed him of sight in his right eye, and a mucous membrane is rapidly covering the left. They recommended immediate surgery. At week's end, the court had yet to approve the recommendation...
...properly immunized), works attractive Dr. Alice Moore, a leading virus fancier. "I'm a virus girl," she says, "so I thought I'd ry 'em." She tried influenza virus on can-:erous mice. No effect. She tried the virus of herpes (inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes). No effect...
...week at Baileys Harbor, Wis., for a seminar on dental medicine above the grind-and-fill level. The main idea, says Dr. Ray, is that dentists examine a lot of people who think that (except for tooth troubles) they are perfectly well. But the mouth is lined with delicate mucous membrane which often shows signs of deeper-lying ailments. If the dentist is alert and informed, he can spot hints of syphilis, leukemia, Addison's disease, many other ills. He is thus in a position to send the patient to a physician before unsuspected trouble becomes more dangerous...
Intestinal Troubles. Victims of mucous colitis, spastic colitis, nonspecific ulcerative colitis are submissive, dependent, afraid of crowds. They are overneat, over-conscientious, "soft and weak-willed." Often they are badly adjusted sexually; attacks frequently occur during, or immediately after, honeymoons...