Word: vertigo
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Caution walked the streets of Tokyo last week. The little race of Eastern adventurers suddenly swallowed their loud, brave words. Suddenly the people of Japan realized that the world is contagious with wars too big to fight successfully, depressions too steep to contemplate without vertigo, threats too insistent to be whistled down with bravado...
...sheaths of nerves, soften the fat matter of the brain. For some people, even a whiff is enough to produce a difficulty in walking. First symptom of poisoning, said Drs. Trumper & Gordy, is a kind of drunkenness, a "C52 jag." Then follow "a rich variety of neurologic disorders" including vertigo, vomiting, loss of muscle control, jumping and twitching, "spider webs" before the eyes. Victims are usually sleepy and tired, but in bed they are tortured by terrifying nightmares, wakened by violent muscular spasms. And finally, "there cannot be any doubt," according to noted Neurophysiologist Fritz Heinrich Lewy of the University...
...otitis media." This is a "chronic inflammation of the middle ear caused by a pressure difference between the air in the [ear] cavity and that of the surrounding atmosphere. It ... occurs during changes of altitude," starts as a "hissing, roaring, crackling, or snapping," soon leads to warm pain and vertigo, often deafness. Yawning, shouting or singing may help to equalize the pressure. Treatment is the same as for ordinary earache: dry heat and a cotton plug...
...half years ago Dr. Glenn E. Willhelmy of St. Louis, a Naval Reserve dentist, reported to the Navy that such ear troubles, along with attacks of vertigo (". . . if mild the pilot does not mention it ... if severe, he crashes"), were most often found in older airmen. His conclusion was that normal wear and loss of teeth make jaws shut out of position, cause a partial closure of the Eustachian tubes. His remedy: an up-building of teeth by inlays and other dental means to make a youthful...
...good book on mountain climbing can give almost any non-climber an attack of armchair vertigo. In The Ascent of Nando. Devi Mountain-Climber Tilman dizzied many a reader with his account of his climb, in 1936, to the summit of India's Nanda Devi (25,660 ft.), the highest mountain ever scaled by man. Last week, while Mountaineer Tilman was on his way to try another climb of Mt. Everest, he dizzied U. S. readers again, in a book that told of his slides, falls and narrow escapes in the mountains of equatorial Africa...