Word: mucous
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...scars do develop, volunteered Dr. Howard Leighton Updegraff of Hollywood, plastic surgeons can do what they are doing for Doris Johnson's hand. For head disfigurements it is now possible to remake eyebrows and lashes with snips of scalp. linings of the eyelids with mucous membrane from the mouth, and to remodel noses, lips and ears with skin grafts. Burned faces, said Dr. Updegraff, are more common now than in Wartime...
...taken 100 one-thirtieth grain (0.002 gm.) strychnine sulphate tablets at 1 p. m. after a heavy meal. . . . She immediately had a severe generalized convulsion with opisthotonos [body arched], trismus [lockjaw], risus sardonicus [a taut, toothy grin], complete extension of the extremities, and cyanosis [purpling of the skin and mucous membrane]. . . . She was given 81 grains (0.55 gm.) of sodium amytal intravenously. The convulsion stopped and the patient relaxed completely and went to sleep. . . . On the third day she was normal and was released from the hospital. This is the first case of strychnine poisoning treated with sodium amytal...
...medulla oblongata, all important part of the central nervous system between the brain and spine. The sneezing centre in turn is roused by stimuli along the trigeminus nerve which carries sensations of touch, pain and temperature from the skin of the face, the adjoining parts of the scalp, the mucous membrane lining of nose & throat and from the teeth and eyes. A sudden bright light may cause a sneeze, as may a strong odor. Diseased teeth, sinuses, nose or throat may affect the trigeminus, arouse a prolonged fit of sneezing. An occasional sneeze is good exercise for deep chest...
...laws of most States, silver nitrate, Argyrol, or some other silver salt must be put in the eyes of newborn babes to disinfect the mucous membrane, prevent blindness. Its manufacture is very simple. For years Dr. Barnes turned out the world's supply of genuine Argyrol in a little ramshackle factory which had just eight employes: five white women, three colored men. He never employed more than 20 people. Argyrol leaves the factory in the form of minute crystals. Little drops of water, little grains of Argyrol, made the mighty Dr. Barnes (six ft. high, 200 Ib.) a multimillionaire...
Mucin. A new and apparently efficacious treatment for ulcers of the stomach and duodenum was presented before the Chicago Medical Society last week. The stomach is lined with mucous membranes which exude a sticky substance called mucin. Mucin lubricates the stomach. It also combines with hydrochloric acid in the stomach and slows up the digestive action of pepsin. It occurred to Dr. Samuel Julian Fogelson & associates of Northwestern University that lack of sufficient mucin might have a great deal to do with ulcers...