Word: sinusitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Livingstone, ill with a sinus infection, read her last line on a Jack Benny broadcast, fainted, was carried offstage by Husband Benny...
...first symptoms of the acute form are usually the same as those of a cold-sneezing, wheezing and sniffling. Some people suffer excruciating headaches from swollen sinus membranes, feel as though the skull were in a vise. The pain may occur below or behind the eyes, may return at the same hour every day depending on the accumulation and drainage of fluid...
Since germ-laden pus drips down the back of the nose and throat, some victims of sinus disease are liable to suffer serious trouble in other parts of the body. They may become sickly, irritable, insomniac, develop a cough, tonsillitis, arthritis, earaches...
Nosedrops, Pipes and Drains. Said Dr. Grove: "No disease of the body probably has more forms of treatment than does disease of the nasal sinus. . . . Treatment which produces a 'cure' of one patient's sinus disease will not always produce the same result in another patient." Medical...
...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...