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...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...
...disease is usually fatal before adulthood, has an inherited enzyme defect that damages the oxygen-exchange cells in his lungs and reduces the elasticity of the lung walls. He does not breathe enough air in, nor let enough out. His windpipe and lungs become clogged with thick viscid mucus. The trick is to loosen and thin this mucus...
...clapped a face mask on his patients twice a day, before meals, and got them to inhale Mucomyst aerosol supplied under gentle pressure by a small pump. After 20 minutes, each bedridden child was turned into assorted head-down positions to help him spit out the mucus. Stronger children got rid of the mucus by taking a short but brisk run, which started them coughing...
...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...