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...Sinus," like "vitamins," is the current layman's medical fad, a subject of conversation dear to sufferers, who like to give each other such advice as "Don't let a nose and throat doctor touch your sinuses; if you do, you'll have trouble the rest of your life." Such a remark, heard "almost every day," bothers Nose & Throat Specialist Russell Clark Grove of Manhattan. To prove it false, he published last week a popular handbook on sinus diseases (Sinus; Knopf...
Bony Caverns. The nasal sinuses are four pairs of hollow cavities in the bones of the lower forehead, the cheekbones, and the bones that lie behind the bridge of the nose. These bony caverns are called the frontal, maxillary or antrum, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses. They open into each half of the nasal cavity, like rooms off a corridor. Each sinus is lined with delicate membranes, which are furred with tiny hairs (cilia) and covered with sheets of warm mucus...
...mile relay team has been struck heavily by sickness. Ted Graves has sinus trouble, and Ted Meredith is laid up with a pulled muscle. But Larry Corbett, a Sophomore who starred in both Millrose and B. A. A. contests, and Tom Watkins, who never ran over 220 yards last year, insure a strong combination...
Chlorophyll's most spectacular success was in the relief of sinus infections and common colds. In more than 1,000 cases treated at Temple University Hospital by Drs. Robert Ferguson Ridpath and Thomas Carroll Davis, there was "not a single case recorded in which either improvement or cure . . . [did] not take place." Patients with mild colds snuffled chlorophyll nose drops once a day. Those with severe sinus infections wore chlorophyll packs or had large amounts of chlorophyll pumped up their noses once every other day for periods as long as several months...
Indirect reason for Mabel's salon comeback was sinus trouble. In Manhattan to consult a specialist (he discovered an infected tooth), she was convinced by her son, Novelist John Evans, that a salon is needed. Mabel hopes to get a crowd like the old one ("They were young. They were magnetic. They had radiance."), is sure there are "youngish people who crave for something more satisfying than cafe society...