Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second time in ten days, the Freshman class has been stricken by a mysterious ailment diagnosed as resulting from contaminated food served at the Union...
...Jolas' school at St. Gérand-le-Puy, some eleven miles north of Vichy. The Joyces were invited there for Christmas 1939, had a big party. Even then Joyce was suffering a good deal of pain. For ten or twelve years he had had a mysterious intestinal ailment, which did not trouble him as long as life went smoothly, caused him agony when life did not. During the last year, friends claim, Joyce "ate practically nothing...
...little use throughout the remainder of the year. Then Bill Webster, regular guard last year, was thrown off the squad for playing JV football, and just to make it unanimous, Hugh Bennett, brother of the famous Jim and star of last year's Freshman team, developed an eye ailment that will keep him on the sidelines through the entire season...
...long, happy life with Maria after the Revolution is won. Everlastingly he talks to himself, standing aside and sizing himself up. But he finds out, as all his fellow-sufferers must, that this is a symptom of his discase, and not a cure. It only makes the ailment worse, for this is a kind of mental sickness that feeds upon itself...
...Vaccine. Like smallpox, influenza, infantile paralysis, etc., measles is a virus disease. It is caused by some organism too small to be seen microscopically. Commonly considered a trifling ailment of childhood, it often brings on ear infections, mastoiditis, bronchopneumonia. Measles can be a serious problem in wartime, for isolated country boys often grow to maturity without getting measles or acquiring natural immunity, and catch it when herded into army camps. Among the U. S. forces in World War I, pneumonia following measles was a common cause of death...