Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Puzzling is the constant (endemic) presence of mild typhus fever in a certain few sections of the U. S. Hospitals in the Atlantic Coast cities from Boston south always have a few cases. They appear in the Piedmont section of the Carolinas. Alabama, Georgia and Florida have quite the largest number sick with typhus. But Mississippi or Louisiana have had none reported to health officers. Tampa, Pensacola, Mobile, Galveston and Houston (among Gulf cities) have had their mild affliction, and the lower Rio Grande Valley from Laredo to Mercedes. On the Pacific Coast only Los Angeles has reported a considerable...
...death in about every 500 cases. The death rate of epidemic typhus is very high, on the average 100 in every 500 cases. In filthy crowded districts, like Serbia during the first years of the War, the rate goes to 300 out of every 500 cases. Victims develop high fever (104 degrees & 105 degrees), chills, vomiting, headache, delirium, exhaustion, toxemia, death...
...roads lead to Nome, only the dazzling desert of the snow. But last week, Leonard Seppalla was not driving Scotty to a fever-stricken town near the Bering Strait with a cargo of serum strapped to his skidding sled. He was driving a team through the Adirondack woods, near Lake Placid, in the second Annual Lake Placid Sled Dog Derby, which he won with a total elapsed time of two hours and 32 minutes for the two 15-mile laps of the run. Later the most famous of dog team drivers banqueted in the Lake Placid Club with...
...Emperor William the First of Germany and one of Catherine the Great of Russia. The note of the former is amusing in its content, asking that special provision may be made by the addressee to allow the writer's sister and aunt who are under quarantine for scarlet fever to attend a ball...
...second phase," the report continued, "was one of increasing toxaemia [poisoning of the blood] with a dusky appearance, dry, cracked tongue, periods of delirium and exhaustion-in short, a clinical picture resembling that of a case of severe typhoid fever in the third and fourth weeks-but with the added anxiety of attacks of dyspnoea [labored breathing due to ineffective action of the heart] and cyanosis [a disordered condition of the circulation, causing a livid, bluish color in the skin], due to strain on the heart...