Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Millis' story of America from 1914 until our entry into the war in April, 1917, is a challenging and entertaining picture of democracy slowly succumbing to the war-fever. As such, "Road to War" should be read by every literate American citizen, for only through an understanding of past errors can we hope to avoid future catastrophe...
...bladder is a slender, pear-shaped sac attached to the under side of the liver. Its purpose is to receive, concentrate and store the bile which the liver produces and, after a meal containing bacon, cream or other fats, to squirt some of its supply into the intestines. Typhoid fever germs occasionally slip into the gall bladder and tenaciously resist all medical efforts to dislodge them. They make a chronic typhoid carrier of the person whose gall bladder they infest...
...McCormick agrees with the facts deduced by Drs. Haggard & Greenberg. He also agrees with the inferences which Camels considered expedient to exploit. But alongside those chips of fact he placed other chips: morphine, cocaine, strychnine, chloral hydrate, carbon monoxide, bichloride of mercury, ether, chloroform, diphtheria, tuberculosis, syphilis, influenza, typhoid fever, burns, asphyxia, hemorrhage, cancer, all stimulate the adrenals, cause a similar chemical increase of sugar in the blood. In the case of the intoxicants, biochemists find a temporary "lift" similar to that of nicotine. In the case of the infections, there might also be a perceptible feeling of well being...
...this sad band of involuntary evildoers, Mrs. Fulmer App of Muncy, Pa. last March prepared and served pudding and salad to 70 guests at an old woman's birthday party. Three guests died of typhoid fever, a dozen others were laid low, and last week Mrs. App, who knew what a menace she was and had been told to stay away from kitchens, was fined...
...Philadelphia last Decoration Day, 400 American Legionaries, their wives and children held a grand picnic. Twenty of the women pitched in to serve luncheon. Of the picnickers 66 contracted typhoid fever. Last week the fifth victim died. And last week examination by Philadelphia Health Department bacteriologists of the stools of the 20 women who had served so helpfully at the picnic demonstrated that two of them were carriers of typhoid fever. Because they were not among Philadelphia's 30 labeled carriers and did not endanger the lives of relatives and friends out of wanton carelessness, names of the tainted...