Word: excreta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...injection of certain strains of the virus). Because its symptoms-sore throat, fever, headache, nausea, muscle stiffness-are much like those of the common cold, polio is hard to diagnose in its early stages; the only sure way is to inject an extract from the patient's excreta into a laboratory animal. Some pertinent polio facts...
...American Medical Association, Army Lieuts. David C. Levinson and John Gibbs and Philadelphia's Dr. Joseph T. Beardwood Jr. reported six pneumonia cases definitely traced to pigeons-two had handled the birds and four lived in neighborhoods where they would easily breathe particles from the birds' excreta in dust...
...March, and high time-an epidemic of amebic dysentery, a filth-borne disease usually transmitted from excreta to the mouth, had plagued Creedmoor's inmates for three years. Six had died by the end of 1942 without action by the hospital's superintendent, Dr. George W. Mills, or the Department of Mental Hygiene...
...Holding to the Doctrine, Ocean-Wide." To most Tibetans he will be known, like his predecessors, as Gyamtso Rimpoche ("Glorious King"). So glorious is he supposed to be, in fact, that the monks of his palace-fortress, the Potala, will do a thriving business selling barley pills containing his excreta-a specific for all ills...