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...each. While in the U.S., Sir Frank has been telling colleagues about his latest discovery: two strains of the same species can interbreed and produce offspring according to Mendelian law. On its face, this does not promise much relief for the patient with a fever and a bad cough as the 1952-53 flu season gets under way. But, says Burnet, "of all virus diseases, influenza is probably the one in which mutational changes in the virus are of greatest human importance." It is his theory that the 1918-19 outbreak happened because the virus became, by mutation, more violent...
...rear, grinning happily though his eyes were red from lack of sleep and his curly, greying hair was rumpled. Stevenson had scarcely gotten under way when careful, homespun John Jackson Sparkman, who had just been nominated for Vice President of the United States, stopped grinning, fished a cough drop out of his mouth and slipped it through a crack in the platform floor...
...Have a Cough." Choi Jung Mook is six years old. Last week he was living with four other boys in a corner of the Pusan railway station. A TIME reporter asked Choi what he will do when winter comes again. "When it is cold again," said Choi impassively, "I shall die." Why did he say that? "Because the last time it was cold, my brother died. He had a cough. Now I have a cough. So the next time it is cold I shall...
...year-old Navajo girl named Jean Smith was Dr. Clark's next miliary case. She weighed 79 lbs., had an agonizing, rattling cough and had trouble breathing. Moreover, says Dr. Clark, the X ray of her lungs "looked like a snowstorm." Under treatment with isoniazid she soon got rid of her fever, cough and shortness of breath. Jean has eaten...
...that Braille learned to play the organ, and out of the institution's pitiful collection of embossed books, each divided into 20 parts, each part weighing 20 pounds, Haüytaught the boy the rudiments of reading. Though perpetually racked by his cough, Louis proved an able student. "This sad little dark boy," as Haüy called him, became both a teacher and an accomplished musician...