Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Osteoarthritis-grandfather's back-breaking "rheumatism"-which is a degenerative ailment of old age, rarely appears before 40. The cause is the normal wear & tear on the joints. Yet osteoarthritis afflicts some people who have never done a lick of work in their lives, while lifelong toilers often escape it. So doctors suspect a hereditary tendency-i.e., some folk are born with tough joints, others with weak ones...
...strangest of children's diseases is celiaca, a lingering intestinal ailment which produces diarrheaandmuscular weakness, stunts growth for several years. Victims of celiaca cannot utilize fats and carbohydrates; most sugars ferment in their intestines, cause enormous distention of the abdomen...
...finally decided that the disorder might be connected with the Army's inoculation against yellow fever. (To those who jumped to the conclusion that the disease was yellow fever itself, the doctors pointed out that yellow fever is violent, with a 10% to 85% mortality, while the mysterious ailment was relatively mild.) The doctors ordered the Army to shift to a new batch of vaccine...
When he died of a heart ailment last week at 52, he looked like the last of his kind. No authority remained who could identify the 400, much less speak for it. The old high society, which reached its height in the studiedly charming '90s, and began to decline even before World War I, was finally buried with...
...large as walnuts on the scalp; these fibrous nodes must be dug out by surgery. Another type of filaria, mosquito-borne, is widely prevalent in the West Indies, causes elephantiasis, grotesque swelling of the arms, legs, buttocks, sexual organs. No effective ways have yet been found of treating this ailment...