Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misplay. Her French brother is in danger. The bad Ambassador of the French Republic (Raymond Massey) promises to spare his life if Lady Blakeney will help him unmask the Scarlet Pimpernel. Lady Blakeney does so, but when she learns that the Pimpernel is Sir Percy, she has a fever of remorse. She follows Sir Percy to France, gets there in time to see him neatly foil a firing squad...
...noted for their lack of concern for domestic matters, vociferously protest the condition of their rooms. It is time to sit up and take notice. When a bed feels like a corrugated tin roof, when dust covers every object and piles high in neglected corners, irritation reaches a fever pitch. No blame can be attached to the goodies, they do remarkably well considering their human limitations. Rushing about the room, duster and mep in hand, with the speed of an express train is the only possible way for a goodie to clean a three to eight room suite within...
...with chills, great depression, weakness, pains in the head and limbs. The eruption appears on the fourth or fifth day after the onset and, except in times of epidemic, the diagnosis is extremely difficult in the pre-eruptive stage. As the eruption appears, the fever is apt to rise. The rash usually begins on the shoulders and trunk, extending to the extremities, the backs of the hands and feet, and sometimes to the palms and soles. It becomes more abundant during the subsequent days, but it is seen very rarely on the face and forehead. It is at first composed...
...August 1867 a soldier came down with yellow fever. In a few days the fort was a raging pesthouse, isolated from the world. Gunboats were ordered away, ships were afraid to stop. When the fort physician died Dr. Mudd volunteered his services. Day & night in a hospital where the thermometer stood at 104 he worked heroically among delirious, vomiting patients. Men died by the score and were hastily dumped on nearby Bird Key. "No more respect is shown the dead," wrote Dr. Mudd, "than to the putrid remains of a dead...
...chill characteristic of malaria occurs when swarms of ripened germs burst out of dying red cells and scatter their spores throughout the blood. After the chill comes fever. This occurs while the spores settle into uninfected red cells. Many people, unable to stand repeated shocks of chills and fevers, weaken...