Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lake, with a tube inserted in his intestines through which he took food. Last week, suddenly taking a turn for the worse, he was put on a stretcher, flown back to Rochester in a chartered airplane. Moaning with pain in spite of opiates, he arrived comatose with a high fever. "An awfully sick man," observed his physician, ordering a blood transfusion, an intravenous injection of glucose and saline solution. At that Governor Olson perked up, began to dictate telegrams...
...Japan, Siam, Australia, the South Sea Islands. Russia. His professional duties ranged from establishing a leper colony in the Philippines to conducting a colleague on a round-the-world tour in the interest of the fight against tuberculosis, from persuading Haile Selassie to cooperate in the struggle against yellow fever to leading a campaign against polished rice in the South Seas. Vigorous, informative, complacent, he discourses with equal animation on the history and treatment of leprosy, on his experiences in swimming in shark-infested waters, his friendship with the Prince of Wales, his meeting with King Humbert of Italy...
...Isthmus, reached New York City March 1. 1929. The 20,000-mile trip was largely financed by giving exhibition "Leaps of Death" in the car. Barone's first companion was killed in a race soon after their start. His second, picked up en route, died of jungle fever. His third lost his life when an avalanche hit the car. Once Barone was robbed by bandits who took everything but his car, which they considered worthless. It is now in the Studebaker Museum at South Bend...
...diagnostic problem is to discover and treat the original cause of the neural inflammation. This may be some toxin absorbed by the system, such as poisonous metals (lead, arsenic, bismuth, mercury) or carbon compounds (alcohol, Jamaica ginger, carbon monoxide, ether). Toxins may be generated, among other ailments, by childbed fever or diabetes. Neuritis may be the result of infections like diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever, measles, rheumatism, mumps, gonorrhea, smallpox, pneumonia, blood poisoning, malaria, tuberculosis, syphilis. It may be due to chronic anemia, senility, cancer, arterial disease...
Gnawing the daylight in a purple fever. If my mistress is different than...