Word: pain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complained to his doctor of shooting pains that he could not locate. The doctor told him to put a piece of paper under his shirt, punch a hole in it wherever he felt a pain. Several days later the doctor called to ask for the paper. The man turned to his wife who turned to her daughter. "Do you mean the piece of paper with all the holes in it?" the daughter asked. "Why, we put that in the pianola and it played 'O God, Our Help in Ages Past...
...ordinary tablet contains 7.5 grains of bichloride of mercury. One grain is usually enough to kill. Taken in solution, the tablets painfully sear the mouth and throat. Swallowed whole, they may cause no pain for 30 or 40 minutes, or twice that time if the victim's stomach is full. Then follow abdominal cramps, vomiting, frequent bowel movements. Soon the poison seeps to the kidneys, stops the flow of urine. Pain varies with the dose and individual but is usually not agonizing. Victims fall into a coma, die within...
...Boudreau had had pains in her ear off & on for 15 years. Last week the pain got so bad that she went to Dr. Ellis H. Edwards, obstetrician, of White Plains Medical Center. He slipped his forceps into her aural canal, between the outer and inner ear, drew out an object three-quarters of an inch long, stared at it in amazement. Then he sent it to the laboratory which soon reported that it was indubitably what he had suspected-the skeleton of a cricket...
...plot, concerning, a lost pain who are shot down one by one, is uncomplicated, almost too simple. If there is a point, it must be the futility of war. However, we found the picture just a bill disappointing...
Swift and terrible as a sword-thrust is angina pectoris. Disease or degeneration may narrow the blood vessels which supply the heart, or a tiny clot dam one of them. Then, usually with exertion or emotion, excruciating pain stabs the heart, radiates through the chest, shoots down the left arm. With the pain comes a feeling of suffocation, an anguished sense of impending death. Sometimes Death comes with the first attack; sometimes, as it did to Banker Otto H. Kahn last week (see p. 63), after many...