Word: neuralgia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...street had to be roped off but the pilgrims still came, hoping to dip handkerchiefs, rosaries, even facial tissues in the scant droplets that sometimes fell when the child kissed the head. Only Shirley Anne's grandmother claimed they had the healing virtue: they had cured her neuralgia, she said...
...Council must take care not to become over-inspired, it will end with neuralgia and nothing to show. It should stick to what's left in the docket. Past Councils have too often scooted off on noble missions of merely when there were still dirty dishes in the sink...
Rita Hayworth, who had been working in the chill outdoors in costumes best suited to her talent, spent a spell in California's Mt. Whitney Hospital, with neuralgia...
...pain-killing as the complete cure for many ills. Its chief method: a comparatively new technique of anesthesia known as "nerve block." Out last week was a new text (Conduction Anesthesia; Lippincott; $15) which held that nerve block is often the cure for sprains & fractures, hiccups, headaches, frostbite, sciatica, neuralgia, a score of other painful disorders...
...weight, full grown, was 96 lbs. A confirmed invalid, he suffered from coughs, sweats, neuralgia, nausea, diarrhea. He dosed himself with quinine, nitric acid, extract of liverwort. He walked about with a cane, muffled himself in scarves and flannels, later (after an iron gate fell on him) rode in a wheelchair. He never married. Until he died at 71, he had a gnome-like, boyish face-beardless, wrinkled, blotched...