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Dictionary definition: RAILWAY TUNNEL cures whooping cough
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RAILWAY TUNNEL cures whooping cough
1883
BURNE
Shropshire
190.
I was once travelling from Whitchurch to Tutbury … when at the Harecastle Tunnel I pulled up the window (third-class); on which a respectable woman opposite to me, with a child in her arms, pulled it down again hastily, and lifted the child to the open window. When we got out of the tunnel she explained that she had been advised that the air of the tunnel was good for whooping-cough!
1962
South Wales Evening Post
15 Dec. 4.
Every mother in the Valley held a fixed notion that if you stuck a child's head out of the window and ...
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Article: Whooping Cough
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...WHOOPING COUGH DEFINITION Whooping cough is a highly contagious disease caused by bacteria. The disease ... pronounced pur-TUSS-iss). The most prominent symptom of whooping cough is a distinctive, uncontrollable cough, followed by a sharp ...
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