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...inches per minute within a cat's windpipe. When administered in oil or other fluids, the particles quickly reached the alveoli, were not completely excreted except over a period of weeks. The researchers found that the cilia, to remove dust effectively, must be covered with a "blanket" of mucus. The cilia kept this mucus moving up & out of the lungs all the time...
...thing, they can detect an incipient case of measles by applying a blue black stain called nigrosin, which has a special affinity for measles virus, to a specimen of mucus from the nose or throat of anyone suffering from a sore throat. If he is coming down with measles, the virus can be seen under the microscope as dark dots...
...promptly caused Dr. Broadhurst to advocate. Said she: "Nurses and doctors will no longer be forced to wait until a rash or fever appears before they know whether a sore throat signifies merely a cold or presages the measles. They will now be able to place a specimen of mucus from nose and throat stained by nigrosin under a microscope and tell in a moment whether or not the virus bodies that cause the measles are present. More important still, they will be able to detect carriers-people who carry the virus bodies about with them, infecting others...
...basis of six years' experiments, Professor Henry Barnett McDonnell, University of Maryland, reported last week that low concentrations of ozone shorten the lives of guinea pigs. "When inhaled in higher concentrations," he said, "it is a violent irritant of the mucous membranes and reacts chemically with the mucus to form a thick froth which . . . stops the air supply to the lungs almost completely in a minute...
...These things are done by thousands of bureaucratic ascarides who glory in the display of arbitrary power. ... In the prolific mucus of delegated power are laid and hatched these ravenous insects...