Word: coughs
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Many ailments have fallen victim to medical progress. Improved sanitary conditions have virtually eliminated typhoid fever; vaccines have made poliomyelitis a rarity. Antibiotics have all but routed mastoiditis, an inflammation of bone cells behind the inner ear and, along with vaccines, helped bring whooping cough and diphtheria under control. A number of other diseases have just disappeared. Tuberculous pneumonia, the "galloping consumption" that consumed many literary and operatic heroines, has all but galloped off the medical scene. The mysterious "sweating sickness" that swept through France as late as 1907, has apparently vanished...
Titled Sound Diagnosis, Dr. Weinberg's record is a heart-rending collection of the sounds of sickness. On it is the grunting cough of a child with hyaline membrane disease, a frequently fatal condition that occurs in premature infants. Also included is the feline mewing of a baby with cat-cry syndrome, a congenital defect that produces abnormal development of the brain, and the wheezing gasp of an asthmatic infant. Only one of the sounds on the 45-r.p.m. disk makes for pleasant listening. Obviously included for purposes of comparison, it reproduces the lusty cry of a healthy newborn...
...your article "Smog Goes Global" [Aug. 10J, you state that "the world will end with a cough, a wheeze, a mass gasp of emphysema." Not so. Poetically, and ironically enough, it will end with a whimper-of a newborn baby. Pollution is only the major symptom of the very fatal disease called overpopulation...
...world will end with a cough, a wheeze, a mass gasp of emphysema. So it seemed last week, a bad week, as dirty air smothered cities around the earth. Millions of smog-choked city dwellers began to feel like canaries in coal mines-obliged to perish in order to warn others of potential disaster. Rarely before had man's dependence on the fragile biosphere been so dramatically illustrated on a global scale...
...Freud. Sex, fun and games: youth culture films attempt to portray student-police confrontation as the new campus sport. Students are heavily gassed inside an enclosed building but they can still run and sing for minutes and even gang up on an isolated policeman. The students cough: they bleed; they cry-but it is all razzle-dazzle ball and tonight they will exaggerate their battle wounds so they can sleep with the sexy chick or that long-haired John Wayne who served in "the Sorbonne, Berkeley, and now here...