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...harbors organisms of trench mouth, may develop the disease if his resistance gets too low from poor nutrition or a bender. Then a bacillus and a spirochete (and sometimes other mouth germs) work together to produce tender, bleeding gums (medical name: Vincent's stomatitis) or throat and tonsil infections (medical name: Vincent's angina). Mouthwashing with hydrogen peroxide is one of the commonest treatments. But treatment usually goes on & on in serious cases...
...defined as, a coarse, low-pitched noise produced by vibrating soft tissues in the nasopharynx of a sleeping person." Sometimes snoring is caused by an abnormality of the breathing passages (like adenoids) which can often be corrected. The tough cases are the ones with "an essentially normal nose and throat" who just snore...
...These are produced by tiny injections of an irritating drug, sylnasol, which produces small fibrous areas wherever injected. He tried sylnasol on seven married patients. Treatment was repeated every week for five or six weeks. The only discomforts reported were a feeling of thickness at the back of the throat or a five-minute earache...
...life that statement has haunted Charlie Beard. Because of it, Marxists have tried to claim him as one of their own, and other men have jumped down his throat. William Howard Taft once attacked Beard as a subverter of the republican (small "r") faith. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago has dismissed the Economic Interpretation as a book hardly worth reading. To the Marxists, Beard has replied that he is a Madisonian in his view of the effect of material considerations on history. To those who have attacked him for reducing history to the level...
...December 1920, while singing L'Elisir d'Amore at the Brooklyn Academy, a blood vessel broke in Caruso's throat. A seasoned trouper, he insisted on going on with the show. While stagehands and fellow singers stood in the wings passing handkerchiefs and towels, he finished the first act though bleeding profusely from the mouth. The audience, noticing that something was wrong, demanded that he stop...