Word: sinusitis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zonite Flayed. Makers of Zonite, chlorine disinfectant popular with women, recommend it for dandruff, wounds, ulcerations, pimples, boils, eruptions, sinus troubles, sore throat, noxious body odors, halitosis, and various other conditions. The Government decided that this was saying too much for a solution of sodium hypochlorite yielding approximately 1 % of available chlorine. Zonite was declared misbranded. Its merits as an antiseptic for some conditions are tacitly admitted...
...ridicule. With Mrs. Sanger's mouth plastered shut and the eminent Clarence Darrow calling upon the wise to look upon life "as a huge joke," the assembled intelligentsia amused themselves with the obscenity of Mother Goose. Unfortunately the Grand Vizir of Maryland Free State was kept away by a sinus infection. Accordingly he lost a rare addition to his distinguished Americana anthology...
Died. Sam L. Warner, 40, son of a Russian immigrant shoemaker, vice president of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. (cinema producers), in Los Angeles; of pneumonia, following a sinus infection. At 16, he and brother Albert Warner, displayed "The Great Train Robbery", famed one-reeler, in lofts and stores of Pennsylvania and Ohio towns. Later they rented a store in Newcastle, Pa., installed 99 chairs, from an undertaker's parlor, conducted one of the first cinema theatres. If there was a funeral, the cinema patrons stood. Last May the Vitaphone Corporation became a subsidiary to Warner Brothers...
Physicians and criminal defense attorneys scanned carefully last week the case of Edward B. Lyle, 21, Staten Island, N. Y., insurance broker, afflicted with sinus trouble, five abscessed teeth, infected tonsils, intestinal disorders and abnormal blood pressure...
Police captured Mr. Lyle, and brought him before Magistrate William Croak of the Stapleton Police Court, Staten Island. Attorneys for Mr. Lyle secured his release on $5,000 bail to have a sinus operation. Dr. John McCoy of Manhattan operated for sinus trouble, removed the inflamed infected tonsils, studied the intestinal disorders, the low blood pressure. The five abscessed teeth were pulled...