Word: asthma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friends looked very much like those in his illustrations. There was no one with a camera handy when the boys (and girls) stole apples from a neighbor's orchard and said their grace before meals, or when my own doctor examined my doll for symptoms of asthma. Norman Rockwell's work has preserved those scenes from everyday life, and 300 years from now our descendants will know that apple trees grew in our neighbors' gardens, our elderly lived with their children more often than not, and health care was delivered by kindly compassionate doctors who came...
...Occupational Safety and Health Administration insisted that textile plants install elaborate ventilation and dust-control systems to reduce cotton dust, which causes brown lung, an occupational asthma that afflicts from 2,300 (by industry estimate) to 35,000 (by OSHA estimate) of the nation's 233,000 cotton textile workers. But the Council on Wage and Price Stability calculated that the bill for the industry would be $625 million for new equipment plus $200 million in annual costs to meet the OSHA standards. Alarmed, Carter's inflation fighters, led by Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze, opposed OSHA...
...pongmen pound their hollow white shells on homemade plywood tables in the basement of Richards Hall, a graduate dormitory where the dust is so thick that "any visitor with asthma would choke," team captain Nick Christakos said recently...
...Celts might have devised it. But when John Rossetti made a chair, Percival destroyed it. Says he: "It was too early to have thought up such a thing." Martin Elphick, a doctor from Kent, pursued primitive medicine, treating flu with violet and willow bark, headaches with valerian root, and asthma with deadly nightshade. The Iron Agers developed their own dyes, appletree bark for yellow, the yew tree for orange, lichens for brown and green...
...also be useful in the treatment of asthma; inhalation of the drug dilates bronchial passages in the lungs. One problem with this treatment is that the smoke from marijuana cigarettes sometimes disturbs delicate lung tissue. For this reason, doctors are now considering the desirability of administering THC in aerosol form to asthma patients. Other uses have been recently suggested, though they require further study. Cannabis is an anti-convulsant which may be useful in treating epileptic attacks. It may be able to replace more dangerous drugs, such as barbiturates, in the treatment of insomnia. The drug's analgesic, preanesthetic...