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Word: sores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cowpox and smallpox are intimately related. Pus taken from a human smallpox sore and innoculated into a cow gives the beast cowpox. The cow's system reduces the virility of the smallpox germs. Pus from a cowpox sore in turn, through vaccination, makes humans resistant to smallpox; it makes them immune. The three New York victims, by milking their infected cows, vaccinated themselves unwittingly. Previously they had not been vaccinated in the ordinary way. Had they been, they probably would not have contracted the cowpox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cowpox | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Came the army to Slough on the very outskirts of London. Here Labor sympathisers held a picture show lor the weary old "soldiers" of the army, while the local maidens, also Labor, staged a dance for the younger set, sore feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cook's Army | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...trouble" and "We demand bread for our people, justice for the miners." All were stoutly shod and all carried an extra pair of "boots." A rolling kitchen and a motor truck filled with supplies followed them, and there was an ambulance with well-trained male nurses to look after sore and swollen feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Cook's Army | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...Sore." Senator Caraway, balked by program committee, issued statements charging that "the farmers feel that the banking and industrial interests have prejudiced the leaders of the country, even the President of the United States against any relief for farmers." Peppery, he stormed and fretted; quit shortly, "sore" (said one Southern delegate) "as a hound dog with a briar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: At Houston | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...nerve, or a dead pressure. In the first case the symptoms would be a "jumping" ache aggravated by drawing in cool air. The cure would be to hold warm water in the mouth to reduce inflammation. The symptoms in the second case (that of a dead nerve) are a sore tooth, sore to bite on, and a steady grumbling pain, not severe. In this case try cold water to contract the gas evolved by putrefaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

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