Word: deliriums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Malaria, the most widespread and destructive, is caused by a microscopic parasite, the Plasmodium, carried by many species of the Anopheles mosquito. The chills, fever and delirium of malaria may recur for many years. Malaria can be treated by constant doses of quinine, and a newer drug, stabrine. But there is no immunization against malaria. Warned Dr. Meleney: "We may expect a tremendous morbidity and mortality from malaria in the armed forces during the present conflict...
...days after infection the victim gets chills, fever, headache, back and leg pains. His pulse and breath grow rapid, his tongue white and furry, his face flushed, his eyes bloodshot. He vomits often, becomes delirious, sometimes maniacal. After three to five days, his dried skin shows angry rashes. His delirium increases until he lies unconscious, his tongue dry and brown, his pulse feeble. Often his temperature rises to 108-9°, and he dies. (In some epidemics 65% have died.) Typhus is frequently complicated by bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, gangrene, paralysis...
...than 20 minutes. They have no sense of time or hurry, none of providing against the future. In the spring they undergo physical mutations. The eyes intensify, the skin becomes red-glowing purple; they gather in frenzy at the trading posts and copulate day & night "in a sort of delirium, in exhaustible and insatiable." In summer they wander miserably, plagued with insomnia, sleep where they drop from exhaustion. To the "severely magnificent winter months" and their terrific hardships they are perfectly adapted. Then they become the most cheerful, convivial people de Poncins had ever known...
...American Defense Society, Inc. immediately reprinted Lyle's piece as a pamphlet, distributed 50,000 copies. The London Daily Mail published it in Britain, sent thousands of copies to soldiers in the trenches. Then came Armistice, and in the delirium of that hour The War of 1038 was forgotten...
...people." It is not a dream. Actually, the so-called "deepest convictions" of America are the insanity, the nightmare that is drawing us down into the quicksand of hopelessness, desperation, and war. A clear voice speaking with the strong tone of leadership will wake the people from their delirium. Only a daring and challenging new approach to the problem can clear...