Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife, who has had a heart condition for twelve years as the result of rheumatic fever contracted at the age of 12, was thrown into acute agitation on reading the article. ... To read a quotation, heavily emphasized, from the lips of a leading authority on the subject that one has about three years to live would seriously frighten anyone...
...appointment was made with our physician. He was shown the article and declared it to be a monstrous exaggeration holding true not even in a small percentage of rheumatic fever cases. It was his opinion that the reporter should be severely censured. . . . ALEXANDER C. HARRIS...
...slipshod, not shoddy, but strictly accurate was TIME'S report of Dr. Cohn's statement concerning the average age at which sufferers contract rheumatic fever, and the average age at which Death comes. Sources for all Dr. Cohn's statements may be found in a paper by DeGraff & Lingg in the April issue of American Heart Journal. In Dr. Cohn's opinion, "the trouble with the U. S. public is that they cannot understand the meaning of adjectives, and particularly the word 'average...
...which ships could dock; that a smallpox epidemic ravaged the interior; that the simplest health measures were unknown and Liberia might become a focus of infection for all Africa. This the U. S. State Department could believe. In 1929 U. S. Minister William Treyanne Francis died there of yellow fever...
...Rondon, the others and a troop of native porters and boatmen found the headwaters of the Rio da Dúvida and started down it in rough dugout canoes. The river, winding northward through precipitous canyons toward the Equator, almost beat them. There were grueling portages around roaring rapids. Fever and bloodsucking insects sapped their strength. Once, when a whirlpool caught a canoe, a porter was drowned and Kermit nearly perished. They eked out their provisions by eating monkeys, Brazil nuts, honey, birds, turtles, fish, palm tops. Leader Roosevelt slept in a cot, which toward the end sagged badly...