Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fever Fright...
Under Medicine in your June 3 issue you report . . . the statement of Dr. Alfred E. Cohn of the Rockefeller Institute on the subject of heart condition due to rheumatic fever. Apparently a member of your staff, in his desire to be sensational, is guilty of a piece of sloppy, shoddy work...
Anyone reading the report . . . can but gather that those children who are unfortunate enough to contract heart weakness in consequence of a bout with rheumatic fever have only a slight possibility of living more than approximately 15 years longer. No other interpretation is possible. If literally true its import would be indeed calamitous...
...exhibits: Diabetes, supervised by Dr. Elliott Proctor Joslin of Boston and Dr. Frederick Grant Banting of Toronto, Nobel Prizeman, co-discoverer of insulin; Nutrition, supervised by Dr. Reginald Fitz of Boston; Prevention of Asphyxial Deaths, supervised by Dr. Chevalier Lawrence Jackson (son) of Philadelphia; Vaccines & Serums (measles, rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever, tetanus), supervised by Dr. Ralph Chester Williams of Washington. In addition there will be some 200 less extensive scientific exhibits illustrating Medicine's progress. Among the 200 will be Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe's "Chart Life'' of the Dionne Quintuplets...
...children have already recuperated there, and left their medical records. It was to help raise $75,000 which Mrs. Levy needs to keep Irvington House going full tilt that Dr. Cohn last week made his gloomy statement concerning the inevitable doom of every other child who contracts rheumatic fever. Said Dr. Cohn further, and more hopefully: "If we can . . . have 3,000 more case records in another ten years ... we may find some way of giving these children a normal span of life on earth...