Crossword-Solution: CONGESTS 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Where drainage is lacking there follows an exudation which congests the tissues surrounding the injury and all factors favoring germ growth are present.

The dilettante person who tries to extract unceasing increments of intellectual or æsthetic enjoyment from books or pictures or travel, without the contribution of steady, painful intellectual effort, fails to win an intellectual life, for the mere automatic process of collecting the knowledge of others for personal consumption without striving to enlarge the general stock, congests and debilitates the mind and prevents the wholesome digestion and assimilation.

WHY HANGING CAUSES DEATH A humorist asked a medical man, with an air of great seriousness, "Why does hanging kill a man?" "Because," began, the explanation, "inspiration is checked, circulation is stopped, and blood suffuses and congests the brain----" "Bosh!" interrupted the wag, "it is because the rope is not long enough to let his feet touch the ground." MORAL QUALIFICATIONS A very strong-minded Scotchwoman had been asking the character of a cook she was about to engage.

Invalids should not talk much while riding with a friend; talking congests the head and undoes all the good the cycling may be doing them.