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Last week the City of New York defeated a $1,000 damage suit by a similar courtroom gesture. A Mrs. Marion Owens, watching some Park Department tree sprayers, was accidentally hit in her open mouth by a squirt of insecticide. Although the Park Department claimed the spray was an oil mixture harmless to humans, Mrs. Owens alleged that it burned her throat. Last week in court, Assistant Corporation Counsel Aaron J. Arnold lifted a pint bottle of the insecticide to his lips, downed a lusty swig, won the case...
Presuming that the virus entered the body only through the nerves of smell, Epidemiologist Charles Armstrong of the U. S. Public Health Service, tried coating the tips of those nerves with spray containing alum. This procedure protected some children exposed to the disease...
Last week Dr. Peet prescribed the method of administering this: "The 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 If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn.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 ice. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried...
...high-price level, is the announcement that an old frame building on Riverview Avenue will be added to Winthrop House. While not a very pretty looking dwelling at present, industrious yeomen from the Maintenance Department will attack it this summer, spruce up the interior, put in some plumbing, and spray onto the walls that etherial something which makes a House different from any other dwelling. Then, in the fall, this little addition will welcome its small brood of a dozen or so, square its shoulders, and prepare itself for the mighty task of filling the gap until that distant...
...sails like those of the "Bounty," made of shirt-like consistency. This is a real picture of real ships on real seas. Storms are not filmed in a bath tub with models, and everything is so realistic that you can almost smell the fish and feel the moist salt spray...