Word: sinusitis
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...hours of the day, seven days a week, the two-story colonial house on High Street in West Medford, six miles north of Boston, is full of bustle. Patients with almost every disease in the book, from sinus trouble to tuberculosis and cancer, crowd the wooden benches in the waiting room. Every now & then, one goes through a side door to see Dr. Robert Edward Lincoln, 52, who asks about their complaints. Dr. Lincoln is most interested in whether they have had grippe or flu during certain epidemic seasons. Whatever ails them, he is pretty sure that...
...brought up short again when an irate citizen asked how long a nearby rubbish dump was going to be permitted to burn. The city manager, who lost his sense of smell apparently as the result of a sinus infection ten years ago, did not realize that the stink penetrated even into the auditorium. When he said: "It isn't burning-the city is operating a wet dump," new hoots of laughter arose. He looked startled again, jotted down a changed opinion of how the dump smelled...
Cause & Effect. Once she understood and accepted this current of subconscious causes and effects, her feelings of fear and guilt were relieved and her self-inflicted sinus inflammation began to clear. When practically everything had been dragged up and exposed to candid consideration, Journalist Freeman felt that she had gotten over her fear of the night, her mad rush to keep busy, her stomachaches, headaches and constipation...
Fancied Neglect. Inwardly, Lucy Freeman was in a mess. She had never known more people and never felt lonelier. She was miserable and gripped by a sense of futility. Her stomach was queasy and her sinuses were blocked. After countless painful sinus treatments, a doctor suggested psychoanalysis...
...first place, says Feinberg, the field is a huge one. There are in the U.S., he estimates, about 10 million allergy victims; about 2,000,000 have asthma, up to 7,000,000 have hay fever and the rest an assortment of hives, eczema, sinus disorders, reactions to foods, allergic headaches, contact allergies such as ivy poisoning, serum sickness and sensitivity to drugs...