Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probably, through her milk, for the child. Dr. Charles Fremont McKhann Jr. of Boston gave such placentophagy a new twist and a sound scientific basis by extracting substances from placentas, with which he inoculates children against measles. He also expects to extract sub stance to immunize against scarlet fever, diphtheria, infantile paralysis...
Rheumatic Fever & Spinach. Dr. James Fleece Rinehart of San Francisco found new ailments which attack human beings unless they load themselves with spinach and other sources of Vitamin C. One of the diseases is rheumatic fever, dread disease which sometimes leaves the hearts of children so leaky that all the rest of their lives they must avoid exertion. The other disease is rheumatoid arthritis (swelling and pain in the joints, particularly in the knees, elbows, wrists). That streptococci most probably cause rheumatic fever has long been suspected. Dr. Charles William Wainwright of Baltimore offered evidence that the streptococcus also...
Millis' fever chart of the U. S. war psychosis is carefully factual, but to unregenerate patriots it may seem pro-German, or at least anti-Ally. Says he: "The merits of the European struggle are beyond [the book's] scope, and it is no part of my purpose either to defend the German cause or to attack that of the Allies. Since it deals with an episode profoundly influenced by a passionate acceptance of the Entente case, much of it is necessarily devoted to a criticism of that case. . . ." Author Millis determinedly refrains from diagnosing the disease...
Bothered by 360 identified cases of scarlet fever among Minneapolis children, Health Commissioner Francis Edward Harrington last week imitated the drastic, effective scarlet fever quarantine established in Milwaukee (TIME, March 4), ordered all Minneapolis children under 7 to stay away from school, Sunday school, theatres and all other public gathering places for at least three weeks...
...Barrymore as the ole Colonel, naturally hates all damyankees. You can imagine the state of his emotions when he learns that his daughter, the apple of his eye, has married one of the critters. But leave it to Shirley to convince the Ole Colonel that even a damyankee, when fever ridden and about to fall into the clutches of nefarious, moustachio-twirling villains, is worth rescuing, especially since he happens to be her father. Sectionalism is wholesomely defeated, and as the band plays "Dixie," old fashioned mint juleps are sipped with enviable contentment...