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...general, however, this promises to be a light year for infantile paralysis. How much this may be due to the preventive effect of the Peet-Schultz nasal spray is any epidemiologist's guess. The solution for spraying, which was developed by Dr. Edwin William Schultz and Chemist Louis Philipp Gebhardt of Stanford University, consists of 1% zinc sulphate, 0.5% pure common salt, 1 % pontocaine hydrochloride (a local anesthetic) in distilled water. But to use this effectively is no easy trick. The careful spraying procedure advised by Dr. Peet...
Last week Dr. Peet prescribed the method of administering this: "The subject is seated and an attendant holds the head tilted backward about 45°. This is the usual position for a nasal examination. A speculum is introduced into the nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce ice. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried...
...Largely as a result of commercial advertising, there has been an enormous increase in the use of various oily preparations for application to the nasal passages...
...Nasal oils can accumulate in the lungs and remain there for life. On their way from the nose and throat they may carry infections causing what is called lipoid (fatty) pneumonia. Death in infants usually results from a secondary pneumonic infection. "Infants," said Dr. Rice, " may recover and general health may improve under proper management, although a residual pneumonic process may persist indefinitely." To prevent such accidents, Dr. Rice advised doctors and parents "not to give oily nose drops to a struggling, rebellious infant." Dr. Bela Schick, child specialist on whom Dr. Rice called for an opinion, "prohibits...
Slang, not the weak, evasive variety, but the short, vibrant phrases, bitten off neatly, inseparably linked with a harsh nasal drawl, and dear to every trans-Mississippi heart, such slang will set, many a pair of ears tingling. Frightened men are no longer gravely alarmed; they have the hell scared out of them. Superlatives are no longer the acme of this or that; they are the cat's pajamas...