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...Give the cops hell!" a veteran shouted. His massed companions pressed in upon the police, now flailing with their clubs. The fighting spread with quick contagion. One policeman had his head bashed in. Veterans trampled him. Blood streamed down others' faces. Veterans swung scrap iron, hunks of concrete, old boards. General Glassford rushed into the melee, was knocked flat by a brick. Before he could get up. a veteran snatched off his gold police badge. A riot call brought 800 extra police to battle several thousand...
...Contagion. Vincent's angina is highly contagious. Kissing seems to be the commonest mode of spread. Restaurants where dishes are not thoroughly sterilized are probably the next most common distributing agents. School children are infected by public drinking fountains. Drs. C. Rex Fuller and John Charles Cottrell of Salida, Colo, were obliged to amputate an Italian miner's left index finger after another man with trench mouth had bitten the finger. More males are attacked by trench mouth than females. But females suffer more, are harder to cure. An attack does not give immunity, apparently makes one more...
...university is the enticement and production of scholars destined to be eminent in their fields." To better secure this end he suggested to the Governing Boards that a Society of Fellows be established, composed of brilliant young men, for the purpose of furthering an atmosphere of intellectual contagion. At the present moment there is no doubt that the Graduate School needs to be stimulated intellectually both in a higher degree and in a different manner than formerly which the proposed Society promises to do. But here, as in every department of the University, the dangers of undue emphasis on that...
...front, it was swept away, its right in particular being thrown back west of Saint-Quentin up to the edge of the Crozat Canal. On . . . the 22nd, this army, badly shaken, retreated toward the Somme. An extraordinary incident here took place -one only to be explained by the contagion which spread from the confused and shaken troops, driven in by the heavy attack on the front line. The Somme, running several miles in rear, was captured by the enemy practically without a blow being struck...
...personal attention from the Medical Adviser, it is an admission that the staff is insufficient that no assistant can be assigned a case. Neglect or improper treatment of disease in its early stages often results in needless hardship to the individual and danger to many when a case of contagion occurs...