Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient with chronic symptoms that are hard to diagnose should be suspected of having chronic undulant fever. That is, if he has ever drunk unpasteurized milk, as who has not? This is the conclusion which two Indiana small-town doctors, Neal Davis of Lowell (pop. 1,450) and Dan L. Urschel of Mentone (pop. 730), reached independently after seeing many such cases. Nobody paid much attention to this mild form of undulant fever until Drs. Urschel and Davis began calling attention to it in the Indiana State Medical Association Journal...
...Cure. In contrast to the well-known acute form, chronic patients usually have little if any fever and may report any combination of 34 different symptoms. The most common symptom is tiredness...
...gloom in which our last column was written -- remember that baseball affair -- has been partially dispelled. There is now a new competition for chronic gripers. We can all play some more and then gripe about the umpires and anything else which comes to mind. "If so-and-so had only played so-and-so we would have...
...Willie Collier were among its stars. When Lillian made her debut there in 1899 in a travesty on The Girl from Maxim's, Honey Stromberg was her musical director. For four years he wrote his finest tunes for her. One day in 1902 Honey, an acute sufferer from chronic rheumatism, was reported seriously ill at his home in Freeport, Long Island. He asked Lillian to visit him, told her he wanted to write her a specially beautiful number. A few days later he took a dose of Paris green and died. In his overcoat pocket was found the manuscript...
...wonder drug penicillin (TIME, Feb. 8) is doing even better than expected. In the Lancet, Britain's H. W. Florey, who first sponsored the drug, recently described the largest series to date of penicillin-treated (and usually cured) cases. The patients had osteomyelitis, septicemia, eye infections, meningitis, chronic infected wounds. Findings...