Word: paines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers, and who will pay the cities' defaulted obligations? The "transfer" of capital and labor is a process depending upon the mobility of the capital and labor force. The removal of several good sized cities will take a long time, and the shorter the time, the greater the pain of adjustment. In the south, if a mill closes, the operatives go back to the farm in the hills; in New England the majority of them have no place to go and no farm but their front yards. The southern mill has no city to support--it is the city itself...
...insanity or congestion in the head but pain in the tongue, sometimes inducing chronic sore throat, is the oboist's occupational hazard. Wind & brass players are subject to emphysema (enlargement of the lungs). Curious readers Ire referred to "Occupational Diseases of Musicians" by Robert Pollak in the February issue of Hygeia...
...Libman's first point was that angina pectoris does not always indicate actual heart disease. A diaphragm pushed up by a distended stomach may cause the pain. A poorly functioning gall bladder or colon may cause it. So may disturbed ovaries. One of the subtlest causes is focal infection, which may lower the resistance of the heart or sensitize it to pain...
Surgery is practically useless in controlling angina pectoris, declared Dr. Marvin. A few years ago surgeons, without knowing precisely why, cut certain nerves near the neck, which carry messages to and from the heart. All that this did was to keep the patient from being aware of the agonizing pain and in some instances prevent spasms from contracting the coronary arteries. But such operations did not attack the underlying causes of the spasms or pain. Besides, many patients died during the operations. So now few surgeons perform them...
Last week Dr. Adalbert G. Bettman of the University of Oregon reported a further effective treatment of severe burns and scalds. He gives the victim a narcotic to control pain, removes loosened skin from the injured areas, applies a freshly made 5% solution of tannic acid with cotton swabs. Then he immediately sponges the entire area with a 10% solution of silver nitrate. Almost instantly the silver nitrate forms a thin leathery surface over the wounds, much as a hot oven sears the outside of a beefsteak and thereby confines its juice...