Word: diphtheria
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...report on the prevalence of communicable diseases. So far in 1938 there have been fewer cases than usual of influenza (off 87% from last year, 50% from 1935 and 1936), meningitis (off 30% from the five-year average), scarlet fever (off 10% from the five-year average), diphtheria (up from last year but below the average). Diseases of which there are epidemics...
...with other diseases, whooping cough, diphtheria, typhoid and tuberculosis, although these would be still further diminished if sweeping reforms, such as compulsory pasteurization of milk could be brought about...
Because helium is light and therefore requires little effort to inhale, doctors have found it of value in treating asthma, croup, laryngitis and diphtheria when a constriction of the windpipe makes breathing difficult. It is also of value to deep-sea divers, as a 27-year-old engineer named Max Nohl demonstrated last week when he descended 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan. This was the deepest dive ever made in a diving suit.* An unofficial record of 361 feet was established in 1916 in Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay. Previous official record...
Calling attention to typhus, smallpox, typhoid, dysentery, meningitis, diphtheria, tuberculosis and venereal disease, the League's Health Committee pessimistically declared: "The diseases enumerated above do not exhaust the list of possible epidemics which may result from military operations in China or from their repercussions." Dr. Victor Hoo Chi-tsai, China's representative on the Health Committee, asked that anti-epidemic units be sent to China without delay. For this the League's Assembly immediately provided...
...sleeping sickness is one of the two forms of encephalitis for which the causes are known.* The other is a Japanese type. Other, puzzling forms are: epidemic encephalitis, which Dr. Margaret Holden of Columbia University believes is also caused by a virus; Australian X disease; encephalitis following inoculation against diphtheria (rare); encephalitis following an attack of infectious disease, such as chickenpox, measles, whooping cough. Also of undetermined origin is the famed case of Chicago's Patricia Maguire, 31, who, drowsing for five and a half years, last week could not undergo a badly needed excision of an abdominal tumor...