Word: contagions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southeast Asia's contagion of nationalism plagued the Dutch last week...
...Engineering. Leaders in the development of this field have been technicians of such firms as Brooklyn's Charles Pfizer & Co., one of the oldest of the fermentation chemical makers and a big producer of penicillin. They have devised techniques that smack less of a factory than of the contagion ward of a hospital...
First Moves. How much longer would it be before the masters of Germany caught the contagion? Before they themselves believed the game was up? Doubtless they half believed it now, were groping for a way to silence the music, to halt the players, to darken the house, to pay off the audience, to rewrite Germany's destiny...
...diseased men are treated with sulfathiozol, which usually removes danger of contagion within three days, clears it up within five days. Obstinate infections get further treatment, may be released if hopeless. Syphilitics are not being drafted: their cure is more difficult. One reason for inducting gonorrheal cases: in World War I many men tried to escape the draft by deliberately contracting gonorrhea...
...Dermatology and Syphilology, develops not from exposure to new germs but from lowering of the individual's resistance to the germs he almost always carries on his own feet-no matter how often he bathes them in chemicals. Athlete's foot spores are so omnipresent, the contagion so inescapable, that the disease itself can be called "rarely, if ever, 'contagious' " in the sense that one individual transmits it directly to another...