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...vote!" Then, Der Führer signaled fortissimo, and beefy, bull-voiced No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring tore into a two-hour speech of such exhausting fury that afterwards his doctors rushed him out of Nürnberg suffering from what they said was acute sore throat and inflamed lymph glands in his right leg. The General, the doctors added, could not be expected to recover amid all the noise and excitement of Nürnberg, so they bundled him into a quiet village overnight, then allowed him to return to Berlin...
...when it is contracted, air rushing up from the lungs during speech cannot find room enough to vibrate the vocal cords. Then, instead of a healthy, he-man holler, there emerges only a high, husky whisper. Before doctors discovered how to prevent this condition by the use of throat-tubes and toxoids* such stenosis (contraction) of the larynx was a frequent aftereffect of diphtheria and scarlet fever. Today, the largest number of laryngeal deformities is caused by accidents, not by disease...
...form of trichinosis in an eleven-month-old Negro baby who died of diphtheria. Autopsy showed, said they, "the first recorded instance of trichinae in the vocal cords." Inference was that the child had eaten infected food. Significant to physicians was the addition of still another cause of sore throat to a list already long...
Most hay fever victims understand little about their malady. No mere irritant of nose and throat, the pollen, when inhaled, affects the bloodstream, is repelled by specific "reagins" the body produces to fight the irritating grains. Hence neither inhalants nor drops in the eyes bring more than temporary relief. But fairly reliable insurance for a quiet season is hypodermic injections given two months before the expected illness: a doctor scratches a patient's skin, applies various types of pollen extract; the one which produces wheals and itching is then administered in subcutaneous injections of refined, sterilized pollen...
...less than two years sulfanilamide has cured thousands of streptococcic infections of various types, including streptococcic septicemia (blood poisoning), streptococcic sore throat, peritonitis, puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), etc. Meningitis, gonorrhea and certain types of pneumonia have also been conquered. So far sulfanilamide has had no remarkable effect on diseases produced by bacteria other than the streptococcus, men-ingococcus, pneumococcus, or gonococcus. ¶ Although there have been only ten fatalities in 4,000 cases,** with "no correlation between these reactions and the dosage," sulfanilamide often produces such unpleasant by-effects as nausea and vomiting, dizziness, rash and fever. These disappear with...