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Complete Recoveries. Coxsackie has been studied so seldom that doctors know almost nothing about it. A similar disease was noted in Europe in the 1870s; doctors called it epidemic muscular rheumatism. In the 1880s, an epidemic struck Bornholm Island, off the coast of Sweden; it was dubbed Bornholm's Disease. In 1947, some of the patients in a polio epidemic in the Hudson River town of Coxsackie, N.Y. turned out to have an altogether different virus. The doctors who isolated the new bug named it the Coxsackie virus. The Coxsackie study showed that the virus had many...
...surgery. In 1816, Surgeon Philip Syng Physick was the first American to use animal tissue to sew up wounds. In 1887, Dr. Thomas G. Morton performed the first successful operation for the removal of a diseased appendix. Some other surgeons are remembered for odd reasons: as late as the 1870s, Dr. David Hayes Agnew insisted on stropping his scalpel on his boot sole, and Dr. George C. Harlan, for handiness, held instruments between his teeth...
...they have since the 1870s, music-loving Cincinnatians packed the flower-banked Music Hall (capacity 3,500) to hear and applaud everything. They got no beer & pretzels program from Busch. In five days and five concerts, he offered them dumpling-heavy portions of the music he loves best: Bach, Bruckner, Mahler Mozart, Verdi (the Requiem), Wagner. On the last night, the audience in the Music Hall stood up to close the festival by roaring out the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah...