Word: fever
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fever is one of the first weapons of the body. When an infection sets in, the old organism stokes up the furnace, heats up the blood, sends it racing round in hot haste to destroy the enemy. At one time the best medical practice believed in damping the fire, bringing down the fever. Now the viewpoint changes. Medical men are conjuring up fevers to help them fight widely different diseases. Last week Herr Doktor August Bier, head of Berlin's largest hospital, told the Berlin Medical Society about his use of fire as a curative agent. He burns...
...Malarial fever has been used for many years in the U. S. and Europe in an attempt to cure general paresis. Many of the paretics inoculated with malaria have improved, but since there are occasional spontaneous but temporary improvements in this disease, it is still a little early to tell just what part the malaria has played. The outlook seems most favorable however...
...Heathsville, Va., a strange disease seized hold of all the cats. Felines frolicking in cellars or licking their paws upon doorsteps would suddenly become languid with fever and then, in a short space, perish. What the scurf was, if, indeed, it had a name, no one knew; they knew only that when it attacked a cat, there was no hope left for the beast's life; that it had already attacked and killed most of Heathsville cats; that a year ago, all the rabbits in the vicinity of Heathsville had likewise perished of a mysterious plague...
...Yellow Fever. From Havana came Dr. Aristides Agramonte, member of the yellow fever commission appointed by the U. S. just after the Spanish American War. Graphically he described the adventures of the scientific pioneers who discovered the mosquito carrier* of yellow fever in 1900. Enthusiastically he lauded the labors of Dr. Walter Reed, Dr. James Carroll, Dr. Jesse W. Lazear...
Show. Adjoining the meeting hall was a medical exhibit. Medical literature, pharmaceutical products, surgical supplies, health foods vied for attention. Outstanding among the popular shows was the new cure for hay fever. Like a kitchen stove it looked, with a pipe leading out through a fake window. Fresh air enters the pipe, is drawn into the body of the contrivance where it is purified of all pollen, and is then released into the room for respiratory purposes. Not much protection on a country ramble, but a great relief to the cityfolk...