Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some day become the No. 1 human disease (it was then widely prevalent among cattle). Last week in Mexico City, delegates to a Pan American Congress on the disease agreed that, unhappily, Dr. Nicolle's prediction seemed likely to come true. Undulant fever, barely 40 years ago an ailment chiefly of the Mediterranean world,* is already a major problem in most of North and South America...
...were still in place. Two pennies were found in a pocket." And the Jasper County (Ind.) Democrat recorded: "Irene, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Neeley, passed away at the Riley Hospital. She had been a patient for the past four years suffering with a heart ailment...
...single probable performer against the Green was absent yesterday, and the session featured frequent changes on all three Varsity squads. The only Crimson regular who will not make the trip is Len Cummings, who developed a throat ailment yesterday. Emil Drvaric made an unexpected appearance on the practice field, but confined his activities to exercising with trainer Jimmy Cox. He will accompany the team but will definitely not play...
...modern name for rheumatism and "the misery," one of the oldest diseases on earth (even dinosaurs had it, as their fossil remains show). Doctors recognize two chief types: 1) rheumatoid, an inflammation which usually attacks people between the ages of 20 and 40; and 2) osteoarthritis, a degenerative ailment of old age. Symptoms: painful swellings of the joints, often starting in the fingers or knees, and migrating from joint to joint...
Died. Admiral Russell Randolph Waesche (rhymes with "may she"), 60, the Coast Guard's commandant (1936-45) and first full admiral, who saw his "Hooligan Navy" multiply more than tenfold and become a powerful auxiliary of World War II invasion forces; of a heart ailment; in Bethesda...