Word: fever
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yellow fever has been stamped out in the Americas; it still rages on the coast of West Africa. Ten years ago Dr. Hideyo...
Noguchi discovered that American yellow fever was caused by a tiny organism which he named Leptospira icteroides; was carried by a common lady mosquito, Stegomyia calopus; that guinea pigs could be infected with the organism; that the mosquito would carry the infection from one animal to another ; that a horse serum could be prepared that would cure the disease if administered shortly after the infection. These facts known, the disease was conquered. The same process must be applied to West Africa. For over two years a Com mission of the Rockefeller Foundation has been at work on the problem...
Control and cure of diphtheria, rabies, yellow fever, typhoid fever, pneumonia, tetanus, and innumerable other diseases and pathological surgical conditions has been effected, like the above, by dealings with dogs and guinea pigs and rabbits...
...work of the Rockefeller Foundation is concerned chiefly with public health. Last year, relief centers were established in the Mississippi flood area; Brazil was aided in a fight against yellow fever; hookworm was brought under control in 19 countries; the Peking Union Medical College was supported; $2,000,000 was given toward a new medical centre for the University of London; and the globe was dotted with Rockefeller health workers...
...supposed. Nor do athletics necessarily cause enlargement of the heart. European studies show that oarsmen, skiers and cyclists are the only athletes with hearts affected by their exertions. Overeating and obesity are bad only to diseased hearts.-Dr. Paul Dudley White of Boston. A serum from patients with rheumatic fever (important and insidious cause of heart disease) has shown encouraging effects in 270 cases of the fever.-Dr. James Craig Small of Philadelphia. By means of the cardiotachometer, machine with amplifying vacuum tubes, the tiny electrical current generated by each heart beat makes its record on a paper tape, like...