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...pneumonia can be caused by: 1) constant use of oily nose drops; 2) nightly doses of mineral oil for constipation; 3) forced feedings of cod-liver or halibut-liver oil to rebellious children. Often the oil slides down the throat into the lungs, where it clogs up air sacs, inflames delicate tissues, forms abscesses and scars. Victims develop a hacking cough, run a low fever. Lipid or oil pneumonia is difficult to diagnose, for few physicians know much about it, and different oils cause different symptoms. In old people oil pneumonia is sometimes mistaken for cancer of the lung. Pneumonia...
...memento Britanniae, he took along an air-raid siren, which he intends to install at his Cape Cod home; he thought it would be a good way to call the swarming Kennedy children ashore from their boats...
...people had no money. All they owned was fishing equipment. All they ate was cod, bread, tea, wild berries. They were plagued with tuberculosis, scurvy, anemia, beriberi. They had never seen a doctor, and they treated their sick with charms: sugar blown into babies' eyes to cure them of ophthalmia, haddock fin bones to ward off rheumatism, burned nail parings to drive away sea boils. A scratch with a fish hook often meant infection and the loss of a limb...
Starting in its second active year, the C.A.A. pilot training course this year presents a considerably intensified program. As a part of the increased pace of defense preparations a summer course accommodating thirty was hold on Cape Cod from July 1 to August 15, and this winter the work will be compressed into the first semester...
...news of a Fontainebleau art school on Cape Cod...