Word: nasally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bony Caverns. The nasal sinuses are four pairs of hollow cavities in the bones of the lower forehead, the cheekbones, and the bones that lie behind the bridge of the nose. These bony caverns are called the frontal, maxillary or antrum, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses. They open into each half of the nasal cavity, like rooms off a corridor. Each sinus is lined with delicate membranes, which are furred with tiny hairs (cilia) and covered with sheets of warm mucus...
Nosedrops, Pipes and Drains. Said Dr. Grove: "No disease of the body probably has more forms of treatment than does disease of the nasal sinus. . . . Treatment which produces a 'cure' of one patient's sinus disease will not always produce the same result in another patient." Medical...
...Excessive use of solutions containing ephedrine, adrenalin, benzedrine, neosyne-phrine, menthol and camphor is to be condemned." Reasons: 1) such drugs may eventually cause tiny blood vessels in the nose to become swollen with blood; 2) the chemicals may irritate the nasal membranes. Oily drops may be inhaled into the lungs, cause pneumonia. Frequent irrigations with saltwater drops may "waterlog" the membranes, spread infections...
Franklin Roosevelt, who has a long nasal memory, last week remembered an odor he had smelled 24 years ago when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The odor was Philadelphia...
After four days of nasal argument, a Constitutional Convention in Concord last week voted to cut the House to a maximum of 400, a minimum of 375 members. New Hampshire's citizens will vote on the amendment Nov. 3, 1942. If a two-thirds majority approves, after 1943 New Hampshire's bill for the upkeep of its lawmakers will come down $20,000 a year. But even New Hampshire's politicians did not relish the idea of saving a lot more-at the sacrifice of a lot more jobs...