Word: pharynx
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report. Based on a review of more than 2,000 research studies made in the past three years, the report repeats that cigarette tars can cause lung cancer; it depressingly documents further evidence that the weed can bring on peptic ulcers, aortic aneurysm, cancer of the larynx, mouth, pharynx, esophagus and bladder. A two-pack-a-day smoker aged 55 to 64, says the report, has 34 times more chance of dying of lung cancer than a nonsmoker. But an equally grave danger may be coronary heart disease caused by the massive doses of nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarettes...
They concluded that the catheter was stimulating the pharynx, the upper segment of the throat. The resulting impulses given out by the complex nerves in and around the pharynx somehow interrupted the impulses driving the hiccups. The pharynx-stimulating technique has been tried on 100 patients, both conscious and unconscious. The catheter was introduced through either nose or mouth and was used to tickle or vibrate the middle section of the pharynx. The result in all but one case was immediate cessation of hiccups. It is hardly convenient for use at home. But if it works as well...
BEAZLE: Very well, remember never to let the patient be fully aware of what is wrong. Even tonsillitis can be described as a malign hypertrophied condition that affects nares and pharynx and may result in paraphonia clausa. It was I, you know, who wrote the sign seen in hospitals: "Illumination is required to be extinguished on these premises on the termination of daily activities...
...year-old patient at Massachusetts General Hospital was dying of cancer of the pharynx and sinuses. No more surgery was possible, and he could barely tolerate the pain even when he was petting frequent injections of a morphine-type drug. Then, during the last three months of his illness, the tormented man found relief. His doctors tried a brand-new type of electrical treatment, and he discovered that he could switch off the worst of his pain simply by pressing a button on a little box in his shirt pocket...