Word: fever
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abandoning healthy skepticism, hesitate to cry "impossible!" Henry Mates, aged 5, of Washington, D. C., did go bald (see cut). His hair did begin falling out soon after he had been scared by a fox terrier puppy. A doctor was called. Henry had had no illness, such as typhoid fever, which might have affected his hair. The doctor said, and other doctors have hesitated to contradict him, that scare and baldness were evidently cause and effect. Let Marian Shields's teacher not be dogmatic, not withhold Marian Shields's grade...
...present scarlet fever season † was an opportune time for two German investigators at Wiesbaden last week to announce that they had isolated the scarlet fever bacillus...
...Scarlet fever begins with a sore throat. Fine, bright red dots appear on the neck. under the chin. The redness spreads over the entire body, except around the mouth which becomes a clownish white. The infection frequently spreads to the inner ears and kidneys, causing great trouble. Upon convalescence the skin scales and peels off. Children between two and ten years are most susceptible. They catch it usually from infected children breathing moistly in their faces...
Although scarlet fever has been recognized as a distinct disease since 1675 (by Thomas Sydenham), not until January, 1923, was a single case developed experimentally in man or lower animal. Then Dr. George Frederick Dick and his wife Dr. Gladys Henry Dick of Chicago took a hemolytic streptococcus (blood-dissolving bacilli) from a lesion in the finger of an infected nurse and injected the germs into a 25-year-old woman. She developed scarlet fever. The Dicks developed a scarlet fever antitoxin. Last week's Germans, Professors Heinrich Finkelstein and Fritz Meyer of Berlin, claimed to have found...
...value of the Illinois experiment lies in the fact that therapeutic rat bite fever is easier to cure than malaria, which has a similar good effect on paretics...