Word: bock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible cause for the current low illness rate is a more sensible approach by veterans to the problems of adequate and regulated sleep and examination studying, Professor Bock stated...
Although this reason is only a conjectural one, Professor Bock said, it might very well be that the older veterans take better care of themselves, don't skip breakfasts, and know that a mere three or four hours of sleep a night will lead to sickness...
Evidence of the small quota of winter sicknesses are the Stillman lists, Professor Bock claimed, which show, on a typical day only 17 men at the Infirmary, five in hospitals, and 11 resting at home, and which show few of the usual respiratory diseases...
...addition, to Hygiene Department has not had the former crop of men with "anxieties over blue books," in the form of nausea, tremors, and other nervous conditions, Professor Bock announced, attributing this fact to a lack of the last minute examination cramming formerly practiced by a younger college group...
Meanwhile, doctors are becoming perplexed over the absence of an epidemic of influenza predicted last May, Professor Bock stated. Reports from the Boston area hospitals show a surprising lack in all three forms of influenza, the pandemic variety, and the "A" and "B" types...