Word: deliriums
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...Scarcely more than a dozen of the 446,726,752 subjects of George V knew until last week that during His Majesty's illness he has raved in delirium, suffered from a dry, cracked tongue, and turned a livid, bluish color-temporarily...
...second phase," the report continued, "was one of increasing toxaemia [poisoning of the blood] with a dusky appearance, dry, cracked tongue, periods of delirium and exhaustion-in short, a clinical picture resembling that of a case of severe typhoid fever in the third and fourth weeks-but with the added anxiety of attacks of dyspnoea [labored breathing due to ineffective action of the heart] and cyanosis [a disordered condition of the circulation, causing a livid, bluish color in the skin], due to strain on the heart...
Hunters may fear that they have tularemia if they suddenly feel sharp chills and sweats, if at the same time they have severe headaches, aching pains in the back, hands and feet, prostration. Vomiting, diarrhea and delirium are other signs. Ulcers and swollen lymph glands usually develop...
...stumping has a peculiar technique. For example, Anton J. Cermak, wet Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator, got up on the stage of the Garrick Theatre and produced a photostatic copy of a hospital chart, showing that his Republican opponent, Otis F. Glenn, had received treatment for delirium tremens in 1912. Then Mr. Cermak cried: "I have affidavits here that this man [Glenn], accompanied by Prohibition agents, visits stills and breweries, running illegally, and drinks so much that they have to carry him from there...
...Scripps-Howard newspapers created Mr. Fixits. The present one on the Baltimore Post is George Browning, who is cheered as loudly as the mayor when he appears in public. He has been little-johnny-sunshine to newsboys and millionaires. When the mother of a rabbi was in a delirium and needed absolute quiet, he got the highways bureau to close her street to traffic for ten days, until she recovered...