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...first U.S. trials of a sulfa drug was made in 1936 on a sinus infection of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (he was cured). Since then interest in sulfa cures has centered around other infections-pneumonia, gonorrhea, streptococcus diseases. But last week Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Specialist Roland F. Marks of the University of California Medical School announced that sulfathiazole treatment for maxillary sinusitis (inflammation of cheek sinuses) improved 70% of his patients in three or four weeks. He recommends that doctors try the drug before resorting to surgery...
...never been quite the same man since. . . . Besides the broken nose, I had two bent ribs and a crushed sinus in my cheek that gave me fainting spells for years...
...about time that lovers of hot music had a chance to listen to it in comfortable seats, without getting sinus trouble, and free from the compulsion to get junky with cut whiskey at speakeasy prices...
Mary Livingstone, ill with a sinus infection, read her last line on a Jack Benny broadcast, fainted, was carried offstage by Husband Benny...
...There is no special climate which is good for all sinus sufferers. Patients with "dry" sinus trouble often feel better in a dry climate, like that of Arizona or New Mexico. Those with dripping sinusitis may be irritated by dry air and dust, "are often better at the seashore." Changes in season usually bring suffering to sinusitis victims...