Word: throating
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...Senator Sheppard arose, not to praise Prohibition, but in a desperate last-ditch defense of it. Waiting at the Senate door was a Repeal resolution. To keep it off the floor the little Texan cleared his throat and said...
...began Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, Florida "lame duck," daughter of the late great William Jennings Bryan, last week at a luncheon given by the Women's National Press Club to the women members of Congress. Clearing her throat, svelte Mrs. Owen read in a husky voice her "Last Will and Testament of a Lame Duck...
...Mayo Clinic, urged by Daisy's physician, Dr. William Conrad George Henske, went to the rescue. Guided by Bacteriologist Edward Carl Rosenow, a zealot in finding new germs and new forms of old germs, the Mayo specialists infected rabbits with smears taken from Daisy Jost's throat & nose. Declared Dr. Rosenow: "This is the first time that tests in cases of sneezing have been conducted in this world, to my knowledge. We are hoping that we will find a streptococcus that causes sneezing, so that a serum may be devised to combat it." The infected rabbits sneezed, indicating...
...nose and, like coughing, a reflex effort to clear the air passages of an irritation. In sneezing the lungs fill with air, then forcibly expel the air. As the blast shoots up the windpipe, the tongue presses against the soft palate, thus shutting the mouth off from the throat. Only way for the blast to get out of the head is through the nose...
...central nervous system between the brain and spine. The sneezing centre in turn is roused by stimuli along the trigeminus nerve which carries sensations of touch, pain and temperature from the skin of the face, the adjoining parts of the scalp, the mucous membrane lining of nose & throat and from the teeth and eyes. A sudden bright light may cause a sneeze, as may a strong odor. Diseased teeth, sinuses, nose or throat may affect the trigeminus, arouse a prolonged fit of sneezing. An occasional sneeze is good exercise for deep chest and head muscles. This explains, apart from...