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Nevertheless, all these forces for health failed last fortnight to prevent an epidemic of virulent diarrhea from striking into the nursery of Chicago's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, an institution with no isolated facilities for maternity care, operated by the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. It was the nation's most serious outbreak of this disease. By last week eleven of 19 affected children were dead, only two definitely out of danger...
...usual symptoms are sudden in onset, with abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhea and prostration. The illness usually lasts two or three days. This type of outbreak occurs in every university, college and preparatory school in the land...
...There is no evidence that this illness is a serious thing," Dr. Michael E. Murray, Jr., Assistant Medical Adviser, said. An illness of this kind lasts from three to four days. Symptoms include cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, and perhaps fever...
...drug to which the patient has been addicted. When Dr. Kolb tapers off a patient, he does so rapidly. "Cold turkey" produces better results. By this method, the patient is suddenly and completely deprived of drugs. He becomes irritable and restless. He cannot sleep. He sneezes and sweats, suffers diarrhea. He may collapse. Most of these "abstinence phenomena" disappear in three days. As. they wane, the patient gets sedative drugs (other than opiates), soothing baths and electric lamp treatments. In two weeks for the most responsive addicts, two months for the most refractory, the patients are discharged from the infirmary...
...single one of the largely or partially preventable causes of death, Arizona has a much higher rate, in some instances three or even four times higher, than the country as a whole." Arizona's remarkable categories of death: Infant and maternal mortality, tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, diarrhea and enteritis, motor accidents...