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...history of the Step Test begins back in 1927 in the Fatigue Lab. There Dr. Arlie V. Bock, head of the Hygiene Department, and Dr. David B. Dill, now director of the Fatigue Lab, with their co-workers and under the leadership of the late Professor Lawrence J. Henderson, former director of the Lab, began the study of the normal human being's reactions to muscular exercise. They were aiming to use their findings principally in connection with industrial fatigue...
With 56 cases contracted by students so far, pneumonitis, mysterious new infectious discase, has returned to the University after an absence of three years, Dr. Arlie V. Bock, head of the Hygiene Department, said yesterday...
Although 25 percent of the illnesses in the University this week are pneumonitis attacks, Bock said, the disease will probably not reach a stage of the proportions of the 1928 influenza epidemic. It is increasing daily, however, and its future occurrence is still unpredictable...
Although pneumonitis, unlike the similar "true influenza" of 1918, is deadly in only a few isolated cases, Bock added, it is a very unpleasant thing to have, and it can be avoided. Students should live wisely, he said, avoid the sudden changes in temperature, such as the trip from the "fright Stadium to the warmth of a room flowing with cocktails" which so many students made last Saturday...
There is no medical treatment for the disease except careful nursing and hospitalization, Bock said. It may last from several weeks in those of College age, to months in older people, though if the discase is caught early it is usually of shorter duration...