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...chemical that will serve to activate the specific muscles involved. In his research with infertile women, St. Louis' Dr. William H. Masters noticed that some had cervical mu cus so hostile to sperm that it killed them almost on contact. In normal women, during their "safe" periods, the mucus is so sticky and viscous that it tends to smother spermatozoa. So two lines of research are being followed: 1) to keep a woman's cervical mucus viscous enough to block sperm, and 2) to identify the chemical in Dr. Masters' infertile patients and then...
...Less than 30 years ago, cystic fibrosis was not even recognized as a distinct disease. It was regarded as a relative ly rare and puzzling inherited disorder of the pancreas, which for some un known reason caused the lungs to fill with an unusually thick viscid mucus. Today doctors know a lot more about "C.F.", enough, in fact, to give it the unenviable reputation of being one of the most common long-lasting disorders of children, and one of their major kill ers. As a cause of death, reports Dr. Paul A. di Sant'-Agnese of the National Institutes...
...hunch seemed to pay off. Methylphenidate not only roused would-be suicides from their comas, but it was also effective for patients suffering from coma resulting from brain damage and liver failure. For the first time, such patients were able to swallow food and medication, cough up sputum and mucus, thus avoiding one of coma's worst complications, suffocation...
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...