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Word: fevered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truck drivers' strike cut off Boston's fuel supply for two days; 1,000 Hershey chocolate workers staged a brief sit-down at Hershey, Pa.; sundry strikes, mostly sit-downs, had 4,500 workers idle in Rhode Island, 4,000 in St. Louis. As the Sit-Down fever flashed like heat lightning over the land, ten farmhands on Charles M. Schwab's estate at Loretto. Pa. supplied themselves with a radio and gas burner, began a sit-down for more pay in the potato cellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rip Tide | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

With the holding of the First International Conference on Fever Therapy in Manhattan last week, a new medical art became of age. The French Government saluted the event by having its Consul General of New York, Count Charles de Ferry de Fontnouvelle confer membership in the Legion of Honor upon, four U. S. pioneers in the field-Willis Rodney Whitney, General Electric's vice president who invented the radiotherm (high frequency electric device for creating artificial fevers in sick people); Charles Franklin Kettering, General Motors vice president, who designed the hypertherm (air-conditioned hot box in which sick people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fever Therapy | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Also saluted for their applications of artificial fever to cure disease were these pioneers: Charles M. Carpenter & Stafford L. Warren of Rochester, N. Y., Clarence Adolph Neymann & Stafford Lennox Osborne of Evanston, Ill., Leland Earl Hinsie & Joseph Rogers Blalock of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fever Therapy | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...body, however, can endure internal temperatures up to 107.5° F. without dying and at that high temperature will positively recover from an attack of gonorrhea; will usually recover from primary or secondary syphilis, especially if drugs containing arsenic are administered during the course of the fever treatment; will frequently recover from tertiary syphilis, including paresis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fever Therapy | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...announcing our results at this time to get the help of other researcher and doctors. . . ." With that cautious preamble, Homeopaths Garth Wilkinsor Boericke & William Wallace Young of Philadelphia last week announced a novel method of treating pneumonia, rheumatic fever, influenza and childbed fever with injections of emulsified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fat v. Germs | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

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