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Mastoids. Dr. Samuel J. Kopetzky, New York, told how infection of the mastoid region, behind the ear, following influenza, sore throat, pneumonia or colds, may result in a general infection of the whole body...
...President's throat (TIME, May 26) was only so-so during the week. His trouble, sometimes botanically referred to as "rose fever," or as a "bronchial cold," or just as a "cold," returned after having abated. So he visited the Army Medical Corps headquarters and in a closed room breathed atmosphere in which was a mild concentration of chlorine gas. Dr. Sawyer, White House physician, went along to see that everything was all right. During his inclusion, the President studied the Immigration Bill. He took three treatments of about 45 minutes each, in the second of which Mrs. Coolidge...
...transmits all the rays of the sunlight, including the ultraviolet and infrared, which are cut out by ordinary glass. Owing to this property it is expected to be of great value to medicine. By it diseased areas of the throat, nose, ears, stomach, hitherto inaccessible cavities, may be subjected to the action of these germicidal rays, as well as to heat. A sun-room made of fused quartz panes would have the same effect as sunlight in the open air. A quartz lamp will give a healthy sunburn...
...throat lair known (because of the scum that frequents it), as the Dust Heap, a stealer of women brings a supposedly half-breed female ward of a priest, under the transparent pretence that her guardian wants her. He turns her over to his French Canuck pal, who starts dragging her significantly up the stairs...
Litterateurs shrieked with dismay when President Roosevelt tried to force simplified spelling down the throat of the Congressional Record. Esperanto was tortured to death with fiendish glee by the barbed criticisms of philologists. And yet Mr. Eurique Blanco, writing in the international Book Review, has tempted the lightning of such a champion as Mr. Mencken by declaring that English is not "easy to learn" and that before if can become a world language its innate perversity must be destroyed...