Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until 1914, doctors were not sure that toxoplasmosis was a separate ailment, until the mid-'30s were not sure they could recognize it. Diagnosis is made by i) symptoms, 2) testing a patient's blood, 3) finding the malarialike Toxoplasma parasite in the tissues of a dead patient. In the U.S., toxoplasmosis is still a medical collectors' item-a lethal rarity...
Died. Paul Burney Johnson, 63, Governor of Mississippi; of a heart ailment; in Hattiesburg, Miss. A farmer's son, handsome, 6 ft. 3 in. Johnson rose from teacher, Circuit Court judge and Congressman to Governor in 1939-with the support of Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. He was famed in Mississippi's bizarre politics as the choice of the "runt-pig" people, he tried to stem lynchings, left the state a surplus approaching...
...make a cat laugh. Old sea dogs were laughing too. But the sick citizens of nautical Norfolk, Va. could see nothing funny about a three-day fever followed by a cold, clammy feeling and nausea. They began getting it last month. The name with which Navy doctors dismissed the ailment-"cat fever"-gave Norfolk folks the creeps...
Died. Kaname Wakasugi, 60, Japan's Commissioner General for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair; of a gall-bladder ailment; somewhere in Japan...
Died. Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, 83, eminent Canadian poet, knighted in 1935 for literary achievements; of a heart ailment; one month after his marriage to 33-year-old radio operator Joan Montgomery; in Toronto. In his youth he toughened his body on the woodland trails of his native New Brunswick, whose forests and streams he exalted in poetry. A World War I veteran, he left behind 67 volumes of verse, fiction, biography, history, including such prose works as The Kindred of the Wild, The Feet of the Furtive, Wisdom of the Wilderness...