Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toronto, with 327 cases of polio thus far last week became the first community on the continent to test the worth of the Peet-Schultz prophylactic nasal spray (TIME Sept. 6 et ante), by applying it to a significant number of children. Led by the Hospital for Sick Children, all the city's hospitals opened clinics for application of the spray. Soon as newspapers announced the fact, 5,000 parents brought children to get the treatment...
...Prescott Bonbright II, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bonbright of Grosse Point, Mich. Under the trees on the front lawn E. T. Weir gave away his niece, a pretty girl gowned in white marquisette, with French orange blossoms around her waist, carrying a white prayer book and a spray of white orchids. After a reception and dinner, bride and bridegroom set off to spend their honeymoon at Uncle Weir's Bermuda mansion...
...general, however, this promises to be a light year for infantile paralysis. How much this may be due to the preventive effect of the Peet-Schultz nasal spray is any epidemiologist's guess. The solution for spraying, which was developed by Dr. Edwin William Schultz and Chemist Louis Philipp Gebhardt of Stanford University, consists of 1% zinc sulphate, 0.5% pure common salt, 1 % pontocaine hydrochloride (a local anesthetic) in distilled water. But to use this effectively is no easy trick. The careful spraying procedure advised by Dr. Peet...
...subject is seated and an attendant holds the head tilted backward about 45°. This is the usual position for a nasal examination. A speculum is introduced into the nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce i cc. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried out on the opposite side of the nose...
...found in his suite at the Plaza, his portmanteau packed, his mourning doves wrapped in clotted swiss, his head in a sitz bath for a last shampoo. Everywhere, scattered about the place, were grim reminders of his genteel background: a cold bottle of Tavel on the lowboy, a spray of pinks in a cut-glass bowl, an album held with a silver clasp, and his social-security card copied in needlepoint and framed on the wall. We begged the privilege of an interview. . . . Mr. Tilley let the comb drop into his lap, and turned half around, his magnincent profile etched...