Word: nosebleeders
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Under his guidance the AP had refused to argue the facts in the early stages of the Watson case and merely denied the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board. That some publishers thought Lawyer Davis had blundered was as obvious as a nosebleed when ANPA's general counsel...
Meat-eating Eskimos suffer from nosebleed because their blood is over-rich in red cells. Dr. Rabinowitch thinks the overproduction of red cells is due to the abundance of copper in seafood. Eskimos do not suffer from diabetes, he believes, because long ago those who might have been susceptible died...
A more persistent nosebleed will usually yield, if the patient half reclines, keeps still, has cold cloths applied to his forehead. A wad of gauze may also be stuffed into the bleeding nostril.
A coin held under the upper lip and a cold key dropped down the back to stop a nosebleed. If those fail, let the blood drip on an ax or knife and bury it in the ground.
The leech is a form of worm which lives on blood, can absorb as much as three or four times its body weight. Around its mouth is a sucker surrounded by a network of strong muscles. It makes a triangular incision in its victim, clamps on the sucker, pumps out...