Word: delirium
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Tricinella spiralis is a microscopic roundworm that enters the human digestive system in undercooked pork, and burrows into the lining of the small intestine. Result: abdominal pains, diarrhea, muscular tenderness, even high fever, delirium and coma. Trichinae, which rarely infect children, may remain with a patient till the end of his life, often wander in the spinal fluid, lungs, heart, retinas and milk of nursing mothers. Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Archibald L. Hoyne and Abraham Alvin Wolf of Chicago reported a new form of trichinosis in an eleven-month-old Negro baby...
...plague spread to Russia, where it infected 25,000,000, killed 3,000,000, and made Hindenburg fear to move German troops from his Polish front to his French front. Today few U. S. residents know anything of the disease or of the dirty pink eruptions, high fever, delirium and terrific death toll peculiar to typhus fever.*Half-a-dozen years ago, however, Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the U. S. Public Health Service, coming out of a hospital, weak, emaciated and quavering, revealed that he had contracted typhus from fleas, a cage of which he had worn...
...news last week when one of the parts was offered to antic, woolly-wigged Comedian Harpo Marx. The proffered role: "an immobile figure plunged into the depths of total despair, who then emerges from his state of hallucination and goes into paroxysms of the most frantic choreographic delirium...
...hospital room in little Lafayette, Ala. one day last week a fleshy, feverish old man lay still in the grip of lobar pneumonia. Having passed through several days of delirium, he did not know what day it was and he was too tired to ask. That was just as well. It was Election Day, and no one wanted to tell J. Thomas Heflin that at 68 he had again lost his chance to get back into the U. S. Senate...
...Bingham and Dick Harlow and the Harvard ideal of teams composed of men who are primarily students and athletes afterward have received their share of fully merited praise from a wildly happy college. The Harvard system of subordinating athletics has been fully vindicated. But in all the post-game delirium there is one group whose part in the great victory is, because of its obvious magnitude, apt to be overlooked...