Word: sore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which often follow colds, Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors have developed a sulfadiazine spray. Of two groups of nurses, one used the spray; the other group was untreated. Only 9.7% of the sprayed nurses got sinus trouble, 8% wound up with coughs, 1.8% had ear trouble, none got laryngitis or sore throats. Of the unsprayed nurses, 30% developed sinus trouble, 44% had coughs, 4.5% had ear trouble, 2.3% lost their voices and 10% got sore throats...
...Stars & Stripes incident [has] brutally exposed one open sore in the American fighting man," cabled TIME Correspondent Will Lang last week: "He is the most homesick soldier in the world...
...sore issue of Russia's border states-Finland's Karelia, the Baltics, Eastern Poland, Bessarabia-has been specifically discussed before, if not at Teheran. Russia has agreed to submit the status of the Baltics-Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania-to public referendums after the war. Russia is very sure that the peoples of those countries will vote for their inclusion in the Soviet Union...
...chief supplier, large customer and road to the outside world, she could threaten as well as promise. The Bolivia-Paraguay treaty would be a smarting defeat for her "free-trade area." Free trade with big Argentina was one thing. Free trade among little neighbors was quite another. Sore point was the threatened pipeline which would bring Bolivia's landlocked oil to the Paraguay River and allow it to compete, locally at least, with Argentina...
...chew your sore throat away. For septic sore throat, tonsillitis, mouth infections and throat abscesses, White Laboratories have developed a greenish, minty chewing gum, containing 3¾ grains of sulfathiazole in each "tablet." According to last week's Apothecary, a patient who chews the gum for 30 minutes to an hour gets a high concentration of the drug in his saliva (70 milligrams per 100 cc. of saliva; the concentration used in the blood in acute pneumonia is only five to ten milligrams per 100 cc.). Although the concentration is high in the saliva, very little gets into...