Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of jottings, however, is interesting to historian, layman and doctor. That is Dr. Cushing's record of how polyneuritis ambulatoria crept upon him and crippled him be fore he, a nerve specialist, realized what was occurring. The disease frequently is the sequel of some infection like scarlet fever or influenza. Nerves become inflamed, the inflammation progressing along nerve trunks and branches and indirectly causing muscles to waste away...
...Roth of George Washington University. Born in Charleston, S. C. in 1803, John Gorrie studied medicine in the North - exactly where, no one knows. He began practice in the seaport of Apalachicola, Fla., took such an interest in municipal affairs that he became postmaster, city treasurer, city councillor, mayor. Fever descended on Apalachicola every summer and Dr. Gorrie found it impossible to treat his patients in the hot weather. The earnest young physician thought the best thing was to cool his patients off, and for that he needed ice. Compressed air escaping from a small orifice feels cold...
...ceiling. Into this was fitted a pipe which led through the floor above to the chimney. Air contracting around the cold ice created a partial vacuum which sucked outside air from the chimney. This blew over the ice, spilled down around the room, cooled the patient's fever...
...symptoms of coronary thrombosis were set forth last week by Drs. Master, Jaffe & Dack as follows: "Severe pain in the chest, signs of shock, a drop in blood pressure, increase in the number of white blood cells, fever, diminution in intensity of heart sounds, a pericardial rub and typical electrocardiographic changes (q, t and rs-t deviations) serve as evidence of an attack of thrombosis. When in doubt the patient should be treated as if he had suffered a coronary artery occlusion. He should be put to bed and a search patiently made for the signs just described...
...students from nearby Salem College, Senator Holt's alma mater, whizzed by in an automobile, tossed corncobs at his feet. Unperturbed, the tall, grave physician proceeded to point out that up to 1932 some 1,000 West Virginia children died of flux (contagious diarrhea), 250 citizens of typhoid fever every year, that at the rate of decrease which has accompanied the Relief privy program West Virginia would be entirely rid of those diseases within five years...