Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germ-free guinea pigs, Dr. Reyniers noticed, ''are more active and develop heartier appetites than their contaminated brothers and sisters." Whether the tuberculosis, scarlet fever and other diseases which they are going to be infected with differ from such diseases in normally raised guinea pigs now is something for bacteriologists to investigate...
...Oklahoma City, the girl chosen as Webster Junior High School's Healthiest Girl was discovered in bed with scarlet fever, her runner-up in bed with mumps...
...world had already heard of Dr. Gladys Rowena Henry Dick who, with her Doctor-Husband George Frederick, had in 1923 isolated the scarlet fever germ and discovered a serum for the disease. The Dicks were thinking of adopting two Cradle children, which they later did, a boy and a girl. To The Cradle came Dr. Gladys to make bacterial examination of the food. Her chief discovery: that the powdered milk, the babies' chief basis for nourishment, unboilable and hence unsterilized, was carrying the germs that caused the epidemic of dysentery. It was through her report-subsequently made public...
Fortnight ago, the chain-letter fever burned in Denver and a few other infected areas in the West. By last week, it had become a nationwide epidemic. Even Alfred Emanuel Smith, in his two-thirds-empty Empire State Building, received 1,000 letters. He waste-basketed all except one which contained a dime. President Roosevelt received 200, sent them to Postmaster General Farley, whose postal service in many a city seemed about to collapse under the weight of chain mail. The Post Office has ruled chain letters illegal but it was waggishly suggested that if the craze would only last...
...week's fever chart...