Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uses. Sulfanilamide has cured septicemia, erysipelas, meningitis, scarlet fever, otitismedia (earinflammation). It has cured some cases of tonsillitis, peritonitis, osteomyelitis. It has cured gonorrhea in people who have been infected for some time, but "first infections . . respond poorly if at all." It is a good antiseptic against infections of the kidneys and bladder...
...cent of patients cannot take large doses, and 10% are unable to tolerate it at all. Patients in bed tolerate larger doses than do those who are ambulatory. Patients exposed to sunlight are more apt than are others to develop a skin rash." The rash may resemble measles, scarlet fever or hives, and break out on the face, trunk or extremities. Slight poisoning by sulfanilamide causes headache, vomiting, dizziness, breathlessness. A person dying from an overdose of sulfanilamide becomes blue, has pains in abdomen and chest, gasps. His heart beats fast; his hands & feet tingle; he has diarrhea...
...prisoners. The plague spread to Russia, where it infected 25,000,000, killed 3,000,000, and made Hindenburg fear to move German troops from his Polish front to his French front. Today few U. S. residents know anything of the disease or of the dirty pink eruptions, high fever, delirium and terrific death toll peculiar to typhus fever.*Half-a-dozen years ago, however, Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the U. S. Public Health Service, coming out of a hospital, weak, emaciated and quavering, revealed that he had contracted typhus from fleas, a cage of which he had worn...
...confused with typhoid fever, which produces somewhat similar symptoms, and in addition violent intestinal disturbances. Typhoid comes from infected food and drink...
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever (comparatively rare) are 10% more prevalent than usual, due mainly to cases in Louisiana and Texas...