Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman of 37 was admitted to Detroit Receiving Hospital because she could hardly breathe. A bizarre symptom was the cyanosis of her hands and feet: it ended so abruptly at the wrists and ankles that she might have been wearing blue gloves and socks. This indicated heart damage. The doctors gave her all the heart stimulants they could think of, but within eleven hours she died. It turned out that she had been on the bottle (and off food) for three weeks. Postmortem examination showed a heart so damaged by beriberi as to induce shoshin...
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...