Word: mucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly all the volunteers had a liquid dripped into their nostrils. Sometimes it was a suspension, presumably containing a virus, derived from the mucus of other volunteers who had in fact had colds. Sometimes it was a plain saline solution. Not even the doctors knew which it was until after the test. Some subjects agreed to take hot showers, then stand around in a cold corridor without drying themselves. Others went out in the rain, got drenched, and then sat around in a cold room. Volunteers had to use paper tissues instead of handkerchiefs, and keep count of each tissue...
There are several devices for both home and hospital use to help severely ill emphysema victims get more breath during a crisis. These machines can mix drugs or mucus-dissolving detergents with the breathing mixture. They supply this under pressure through a mask that the patient can hold to his face for a couple of minutes or strap on if he needs longer treatment...
...then: "It is vestigial in the carnivorous septibranch bivalves"; what, have not the carnivorous septibranch bivalves their own vivacious style? "The style is present in only those herbivorous gastropods which feed by cilia or by slow radular action; in archeogastropods (e.g., Lunella) the style is mucus rod"; will Lunella tolerate such a slur? "Carnivorous snails have no style." The last straw...
...team headed by Dr. John P. Colmore got surprisingly good results from tests on patients with lung cancer. They reasoned that while it is hard to get test fluid containing cancer cells out of the lungs or bronchi, there are likely to be some in a patient's mucus. And since some mucus is swallowed, especially during sleep, there should be cancer cells in a patient's stomach in the morning. In nearly all their cases that later proved to be lung cancer, the tetracycline glow gave an early, accurate report. Only one of 15 men being treated...
...Mucomyst spray is no cure, but it appears to be less irritating than previous aerosols. While its effects may be most dramatic in cystic fibrosis, the University of Mississippi's Dr. Watts R. Webb reports that the drug seems to be equally useful in other diseases in which mucus blocks breathing...