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Among Nairobi's Africans, who judge an alcoholic beverage not by its taste but its kick, the most popular brew for the past 13 years has been a potion known as KMQ (Kill Me Quick), a throat-burning mixture of surgical spirits and methyl alcohol. Invented by a burly Luo tribesman named Akumu Onyiego, KMQ was precisely named: less than two pints of the stuff is a lethal dose...
Hands of God. A Sicilian ear-nose-throat specialist named Guido Guida (pronounced Gweeda) got the idea for CIRM in 1935 when he met a sick-looking sailor friend in his native port of Trapani. "I came down with bronchopneumonia en route from New York to Genoa," he explained. "Who cured you?" Guida asked...
...gullet) and bows when making his cooing sound before target females. Experts on animal behavior have assumed that the courting actions are all part of a single instinctive pattern fixed within the brain. When such a pattern is released, it must go through its full course-in this case, throat swelling, cooing and bowing...
...York City's currently unpopular brand of virus x is unusual mainly in its treacherous, delayed-fuse character. Dr. Diehl's case began in mid-February with a sore throat that burned all the way down into her chest. The next day she went to her office, but felt seedy, flushed and achy. It hurt her to move her eyes. Her temperature went up to 100.5. Dr. Diehl prescribed aspirin for herself...
...third day she quit work at noon, went to bed. Yet it took two more days of fever, coughing, sore throat and painful eyes before Carolyn Diehl got alarmed enough to call in another doctor. He prescribed an antibiotic (tetracycline) to guard against a second, bacterial infection, and an antihistaminic (Chlor-Trimeton), and told her to breathe humid air as much as possible. She did-by sitting in a rocking chair next to a hot shower for half an hour at a stretch. Her son Marc, 6, came down with a similar but milder case; mother and son shared...