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Show SNEEZED FOnTY DAYB. """ ".. of . Vf..hl.ta. Olrt lh. li.M . ., Ma(1fc One hundred sneezes a minute. 60.-000 60.-000 ineeie, . alr ,ueh . reMril, rd, f,,e-'roni WT tale or the .".?... cf. w,enl f edlclno adver-tuement adver-tuement it u ,,,, on nor , other, however. It , the true story . w !! of 1M"l"r! hlch occurred In Washington only a few weeka ago ,. V."potw ,0 the Medical so-e so-e ety by Dr. Walter A. Wells of that lT', V" "'J"' a a ehoolglrl, who had hsrdly ever sneezed before In her life. The attack began at school on "' ln October, and had been preceded pre-ceded by a cold lasting a couple of weeks, during which she had sneeied somev.hat, but not unnaturally. Tn ""i"Ln w" lirol" "t t Jl nine , ,hfn ,he h,J tsken her seat to begin her morning work. In that nrii nour her schoolmates counted about l.too tneetes everything she did for It or thst anybody else did mado It wor.e Medical aid waa summoned, sum-moned, A number of learned doctor visited thla Interesting cane, and ecat prescribed something different m.a the so-called sedatives were lrle(L opium, bromide, and hyoscyamus, the wry largest dotes, but none seemed to sedsle still the snseilng wint on, and the patient was bvomlng eihauittd. A consultation of doctora was held, they decided to agree, Tho patient must be chloroformed. This waa done, but It and all other nttempta made by the doctors wero to no purpose. pur-pose. Finally a close Investigation waa mtilt and a growth waa found located lo-cated deep In the noio In which Is known as perhoplcs, Dr. Walter A. Wells, who Is an expert In such matters, mat-ters, undertook their removal by operation oper-ation with electric needles, A number of operations had to be performed beforo be-foro all the abnormal growth waa eradicated, erad-icated, but from the first the sneetlng began to grow less and leaa frequent until It finally ceased. |
