Word: sinus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt has not had a good winter. Like practically everyone else in Washington, he has had his colds, his touches of sinus, flu, bronchitis. But after Teheran, Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, the President's physician, took his patient firmly in hand. Since then the President has rarely missed his two swims a week, has been trying to lighten his 16-hour day. Dr. McIntire now declares the President in good shape. This week Mrs. Roosevelt announced that it would be "a week or so" before he returns to Washington, because, though he looked well when...
...Penn Station and Harlem. In 1932, in his Harlem Symphony, he reported some of the things he had heard-or might have heard-Jewish horns at noth Street, Spanish castanets at n6th, Negro basses at 12 5th. Cut down to beer ("my great love is champagne"), ailing with sinus, Jimmie went back to studying music...
...prevent the infections which often follow colds, Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors have developed a sulfadiazine spray. Of two groups of nurses, one used the spray; the other group was untreated. Only 9.7% of the sprayed nurses got sinus trouble, 8% wound up with coughs, 1.8% had ear trouble, none got laryngitis or sore throats. Of the unsprayed nurses, 30% developed sinus trouble, 44% had coughs, 4.5% had ear trouble, 2.3% lost their voices and 10% got sore throats...
...wandering in their midst. Very red were the faces of some Philadelphia doctors. For the victim, a poor 67-year-old Russian Jew, with the typical leonine face of a skin leper, has been in & out of half a dozen Philadelphia clinics, where he was treated for body lice, sinus trouble, hardening of the arteries, a broken hip. At last doctors at Presbyterian Hospital, after treating him off & on for two years, diagnosed his most important ailment. Leprosy is extremely rare-there are only about 350 cases (mostly from coastal cities) in the U.S. leprosarium in Louisiana (TIME...
Died. John Hargis Anderson, 46, president of the New York Drama Critics Circle, critic of Hearst's Journal-American; of meningitis following a sinus operation; in Manhattan...