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Verbose Matt Neely was a Senator in 1940, with two years to go, when he saw his political machine was beginning to cough and fall apart. So he went home to run for Governor against a Democrat with a comic-book name: H. Guy Kump. He won. Out of State jobs went Kump followers, in went Neely men. This year, satisfied, Matt Neely ran again for Senator...
General symptoms are fever (usually 100°-103°), cough, chilliness, headache (often severe). Lung inflammation appears within the first few days but is seldom as extensive as in pneumonia. Sulfa drugs don't help the patient and sometimes increase a patient's misery. Treatment with pneumonia serums has also proved futile...
...Philip Cohen and Samuel Jerome Scadron of Manhattan told how they solved this grave problem by vaccinating 200 mothers in the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy. About 150 billion whooping-cough germs were given to the mothers in injections at two-week intervals. The mothers developed antibodies in their blood streams, passed them on through the umbilical cord to their babies. The inoculations had no effect upon pregnancy or delivery...
Damaged Brains. In Cincinnati's Child Guidance Home, Drs. Louis Aryan Lurie and Sol Levy studied 58 children aged ten and eleven, who had come down with whooping cough in early infancy. Of these children, 34, or more than 58%, showed definite changes in behavior, personality and intelligence later in life-apparently, said the doctors, "as a direct result of this infection...
...striking and characteristic finding" in these children was a delay in walking and talking; some of them had already started, but stopped after they had whooping cough. Others had convulsions, deafness, speech defects, subnormal intelligence. The incidence of mental deficiency, said the doctors, was much larger in this group of children than in the entire home...