Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department of Agriculture to test them for tuberculosis. The test was simple and harmless : the injection of a small quantity of tuberculin, made from the bacteria of tuberculosis, under the animal's skin. If she had the slightest trace of the disease, the cow would develop fever, and be killed as a menace to other cows and to children who drank her milk. Since the Gibsons neither permitted their cows to herd with other cows nor sold their milk, Lawyer Gibson sturdily stood on his legal right not to have his cows tested...
Last week a Washington, D. C. woman died of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, a disease which until recently was found only in the remote Bitter Root Valley of Montana and the Snake River Valley of Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The woman's skin was dotted with typical pinpoint hemorrhages, her lungs and kidneys congested, spleen enlarged, liver degenerated, genitalia hemorrhagic. Two other people in the vicinity have died with the same symptoms since June 1, and the panicky Capital immediately implored district and public health officials for advice on how to avoid a devastating disease which...
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is caused by a microscopic speck which may be an especially tiny bacterium or an especially big virus. Bacteriologists cannot decide which. It is transmitted to man by a tick called Dermacentor andersoni, which in an unknown manner migrated and adapted itself to the greenery of the Appalachian foothills...
...Paris five eminent medical specialists hustled last week to the Carpathian Mountain royal palace at Sinaia, Rumania. The patient awaiting them was Dowager Queen Marie, 61. From Vienna hustled famed Hans Eppinger, specialist in heart diseases. From Rome hustled Sir Aldo Castellani. Count of Chisimaio, specialist in yellow fever, dysentery, sleeping sickness and other tropical diseases (TIME. June 8, 1936). Other hustlers included a radiologist and a liver specialist. Soon from Professor Eppinger came the first definite announcement of what was the matter with Queen Marie, reported sick since last March. Marie of Rumania is suffering from a serious liver...
...agony of the hot tears that blister his fevered cheeks as he nightly kisses the parched lips and looks upon the famine-pinched faces of his children, as they go supperless to their bed of straw! Who can tell the anguish of his heart when the wife of his bosom bends over him with her pale, earnest face, and, as she wipes the fever-drops from his brow, with the sublime energy of woman's endurance, whispers resignation, hope! . . . How different would be the condition of such a person, if, in the days of his health and strength...