Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Thomas Francis (Tommy) Dorsey Jr., 51, hot-tempered hot trombonist and bespectacled "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"; of suffocation in his sleep during an attack of nausea; in Greenwich, Conn. Tommy and his elder brother, Saxophonist Jimmy, called their first band (1920) "Dorsey's Novelty Six," later razzed up the title to "Dorsey's Wild Canaries." The Dorseys riffed through the jazz-dazzled '20s under Bandleaders Paul Whiteman, Red Nichols and Rudy Vallee, by 1934 had formed the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra, within a year hit the bigtime of the big-band era. Then Tommy stomped...
...Southern states, is fast becoming a medical problem as well, reported Tulane University doctors. The tiny creature (from ⅛ to ¼ in. long, red with a black abdomen) has a savage sting that in mild cases causes a severe blister and swelling, sometimes accompanied by low fever and nausea; in some allergic individuals the sting, like bee venom, can cause anaphylactic shock, and there have been several deaths...
...last 18 months there have been eight deaths for which the drug may have been at least partly responsible. There was yet no proof that carbutamide was solely to blame but Lilly was putting doctors on guard. About 5% of patients had skin rashes, loss of appetite, nausea, drug fever, or lowering of the white blood-cell count. In nearly all such cases the symptoms went away when the drug was stopped...
...windows closed. After more tests with two of the most persistent sufferers, Printers Angelo Puglisi and William Grimes, Dr. Lewis consulted Skin Specialist Dr. Louis Schwartz, concluded that the reaction was similar to the reaction of drinkers to Antabuse, the anti-alcoholism drug which produces nausea and other physical disorders (TIME, Oct. 29, 1951). Then he learned that the company had recently doubled the amount of antiscum compound used in its color inks. Over at the ink-manufacturing plant he found that weekend drinkers were suffering the same ill effects. Dr. Lewis shut up Volunteers Puglisi and Grimes with...
...whipped up by the local press and an outfit calling itself the "Fluoridation Education Society of the Carolinas," Mayor Leon Schneider of Gastonia, N.C. ordered a halt to fluoridation of the city's water. Symptoms falsely attributed to the tooth-saving fluoridation process: "excessive thirst, spine becomes stiff, nausea, mental alertness deteriorates, nails become brittle and peel, vision becomes blurred." One hysterical woman phoned the mayor: "People are dying like flies." In contrast, the U.S. Public Health Service reported soberly and scientifically on the tenth year of fluoridation in Grand Rapids, Mich.: it has reduced children's tooth...