Word: fever
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Comparatively cheap seems the typhoid fever of the King-Emperor when he was Prince of Wales when a cure was effected for not quite...
That is a spirillum that lives in the blood of rats and mice.† It causes the rodents no inconvenience. However when infected mice bite grown-ups or gnaw off the succulent fingers, toes, ears and lips of infants the attacked humans contract a shaking fever...
...with the idea of causing rat bite fever to shake some of the paralysis out of the Illinois paretics that the Hershfield group infected them. Only ten patients died during the treatment, and of those only two deaths could be directly attributed to the infection. Of the others, Dr. Hershfield reported last week, half were more or less physically improved and 20% showed some mental improvement...
...escaped dengue fever, he said, and superstitiously rapped the wooden handle of his umbrella. Yes, his rheumatism was better, thanks to the tropic heat and tennis. Did he have apprehensions or misgivings about his high post? Statesman Stimson drew in his chin and replied...
Died. Albert, 41, five-ton dean of the Ringling circus pachydermous corps. Eleven years ago Asiatic Albert (Elephas maximus) was smitten by hay fever, with earth-shaking results. Since then, the snuffling bull has been permitted to spend his years beneath the Florida sun; but this spring it was decreed that Albert should journey northward. The unwell ungulate journeyed. Swiftly he contracted pneumonia. And, despite depth bombs charged with quinine, and gallons of legally prescribed liquor, he died. Notable is the fact that he died most opportunely; in time to burst into print just before the circus's splendiferous...