Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even so, California last week had a great collection of other woes. Epidemic throughout the State were mild types of influenza and measles. Scarlet fever was increasing slightly. Epidemics of mumps, chicken pox and whooping cough reached their peaks last month, were last week on the decline. Gonorrhea has taken a great leap in California, half the new cases occurring in Los Angeles...
When he gave the kidneys artificial fevers, they increased their absorption of oxygen until temperatures reached the equivalent of 107° in human beings. When a sick man's temperature reaches that height, his kidneys usually cease to function and he sinks into a coma. Autopsy usually discloses his kidneys damaged. That the damage begins with overexertion of mitochondria in the kidney cells seemed probable last week when Dr. Wilson reported that at the equivalent of 107° fever, rabbit kidney mitochondria suddenly shattered...
...himself suspected of being party to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was court martialed, with seven other suspects, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fort Jefferson, on the dry Tortugas, off the southern tip of Florida. He tried to escape, failed, was put in a solitary dungeon. When yellow fever killed the prison's doctor and scores of its 1,000 convicts, Dr. Mudd volunteered his services, worked heroically to stem the epidemic. In the spring of 1869 he was pardoned by President Andrew Jackson...
Married at 25, Artist Parrish settled in New Hampshire, contracted typhoid fever, had to move to the Adirondacks and finally to Arizona for his health. To intimates he admits that the particular rocky gorges that he has been putting in his imaginary landscapes for years exist in reality 50 miles beyond Phoenix where the desert joins the Bradshaw Mountains...
Meantime Chairman Eccles is trying out another set of brakes, which are designed to control a specific kind of credit -stockmarket credit. Under the Securities Exchange Act the Reserve Board was given the power to regulate margin requirements. Fortnight ago, sensing the growing speculative fever, Chairman Eccles upped maximum margin requirements from 45% to 55% (TIME, Feb. 3). Some bankers believe that even if the Board shut down, as it can. on all market credit, a fancy boom could occur on a cash basis. Their point is that while credit may be shut off at one spigot it might still...