Word: nasalized
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...Germany [before 1920] . . . considerable attention was attracted to an operation which consisted of the bisection of one of the ethmoid [branches of the nasal] nerves. The results were . . . discouraging, since instead of curing hay fever, this procedure sometimes produced neuralgia, hemorrhages and double vision. . . . [In the U. S.] local treatments such as belladonna plasters over the kidneys and ice bags over the vertebrae were enthusiastically recommended. A worthy Ph.D. pleaded for selfdiscipline, fervently exhorting his hearers not to get the sneezing habit-which was very much like bidding a patient with a raging fever to keep cool. . . . Treatment ranged from...
...polio often ran in families, even when brothers and sisters were living far apart. He suspected that children of these susceptible families might have inherited unusually thin nose linings, easily penetrated by the polio virus. So he decided to set up "virus barriers" of tough new cells in the nasal membranes of monkeys by injecting them with tiny doses of the female sex hormone oestrogen, which, for some strange reason, stimulates cell growth in nose linings...
...divided 48 monkeys into two groups. Group One was given oestrogen injections, then nasal sprays of polio virus. Group Two was given no oestrogen but was merely infected with the virus. Result: Only twelve members of Group One came down with polio, 22 members of Group Two. Most likely, said Dr. Aycock last week, artificial thickening of their nasal membranes protected the first group of monkeys against the disease. Whether oestrogen barriers might also protect human beings, he did not venture...
...When swimming, always exhale through the nose, inhale through the mouth to "maintain a positive air pressure in the nasal cavities," protect the sinuses, nose and throat from the entrance of water...
...Never dive feet foremost. "The rush of water into the nasal cavities may readily cause acute infections of the sinuses, the middle ear and the mastoid in swimmers of all ages...