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Commonest symptom in susceptible children. Dr. Cohlan reported, is a seizure like that of tetanus, in which the spine is arched stiffly back. Next in frequency come uncontrollable eye rolling, rigidity of the muscles (especially those used in chewing), and drooling. Understandably, physicians have mistaken these disorders for signs of epilepsy, tetanus, bulbar polio and encephalitis. In one case they increased the dose of the drug, in a fumbling effort to treat the seizures that a smaller dose had caused...
...Despite the fact that people swallow an infinite variety of pills, tablets, capsules and syrups, medical scientists are still far from agreed as to which of them are best -or even whether any treatment for uncomplicated viral infections is desirable. A runny nose is an uncomfortable and socially embarrassing symptom, but the increased fluid secretion by the nasal mucosa is, some experts believe, one of the body's defenses against viral invasion. Drying up the mucosa (usually with anti-histamines), they say, may simply prolong the battle. The fever that results from many virus infections is also widely regarded...
...contest finally ended, with so many perfect scores that the Trib didn't even bother to print the names. The affair was, in fact, an early symptom of quiz show cheating and payola, but no one knew it at the time. The Tribune finally decided on a tie-breaking device: a huge page full of letters and names of towns. Contestants were supposed to compile as many names as they could with the available list and the available letters; there was a complicated scoring system. At this point, many people decided the hell with it (particularly the educational types...
...Piaf, 44, went on. And because she was Piaf, French newspapers followed her through every symptom. They had long since told the chronicle of her sorrows: the childhood blindness, the unhappy love affairs, the near-fatal auto accidents. They had recorded her illness in Paris in 1954, the collapse in Stockholm in 1958, last year's major surgery (for a gastric ulcer) in New York. Now the headline writers seemed engaged in a macabre watch. "Piaf suffers and refuses to capitulate," cried Paris-Journal. "Piaf falling like Moliere on the planks of the provincial coliseum*-that was worth...
...near. People start dropping like flies, or so the spectator gathers. Actually, only one case of radiation sickness is shown, and the only symptom indicated is a thermometer in the fellow's mouth. Presently the government passes out some lethal pills, and the populace meekly lies down to die-off-screen...