Word: nasally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blood stream but increased the oxygen content of the blood-just the thing, he suspected, for asthmatics wheezy to the point of strangulation. In the last three years he has tried the Knott technique on 24 asthma patients, all of whom defied treatment by conventional methods such as nasal surgery, allergy studies, adrenalin, ephedrine...
...physical classification, 1-AR, applies to men with correctible defects, i.e., dental and nutritional defects, nasal obstructions, hernia, etc. Visual and dental requirements have been relaxed somewhat, but height and weight specifications remain the same...
Perhaps Rushing doesn't impart the poignant feeling of a Bessie Smith to his rendition, but he performs his usual entertaining, ultra-nasal job. As for the Count, he apparently is a Harvard rooter, after doing a turn over the Crimson Network last spring, for he gives the number an extra special treatment. There is some excellent saxophone moaning on the first two choruses, and Dicky Wells, or someone just as good, plays a few pleasant bars of trombone during the vocal. And just to make sure that "Harvard Blues" has a congenial mate, the reverse, one of those riff...
...known specific medical cure. Preventives include delousing by shaving the body and bathing with creosol soap; sterilizing clothes and bedclothes; vaccination, which may not immunize but usually lessens the severity of attacks and reduces mortality. Best treatment of typhus involves sponge baths, irrigations, a soft high-caloric diet (nasal feeding if a victim is too nauseated to eat), open air if the climate permits...
...Surgery-rooting but polyps, or carving windows in clogged nasal passages-is often "underdone . . . not completed." Scar tissue may grow in, choke up the opening. When done thoroughly, an operation may bring great relief in breathing. But, said Dr. Grove, since there are eight nasal sinuses all told, fixing one may not cure or prevent disease in the others...