Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shepherd boy who, mistaking a joking troubadour for God, is inspired to start the first Children's Crusade to Jerusalem. He recruits tens of thousands of moppets, sweeps across France like a locust plague, accepts slave-traders' transportation to the Holy Land as a miracle, dies of fever as the flabbergasted Caliph of Bagdad good-humoredly pretends to surrender in the name of the Virgin Mary...
...austere Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, Camillo Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni, the Pope's protege and master of ceremonies, Count Franco Ratti, the Pope's nephew, Governor Camillo Serafini of Vatican City. The Pope's regular doctor, Dr. Aminta Milani, himself down with a high fever, left his sickbed to administer to the Pontiff a last, desperate injection of adrenalin...
...most treacherous of major diseases, trichinosis, is caused by eating underdone pork in which larvae of the hairlike worm Trichinella spiralis dwell. Trichinosis, with its severe intestinal pains and high temperature is rarely diagnosed, more often confused with typhoid or rheumatic fever. Although public health officials have long known that the U. S. has a higher incidence of trichinosis than any other country in the world,* even the efficient Public Health Service did not publish until last year the astounding fact that an estimated 16,000.000 persons in the U. S. are infected with trichinae...
...Public Health Service last week came a new, streamlined mass-production method of culturing Rickettsia prowazeki. Bacteriologist Herald Rea Cox of the Rocky Mountain Laboratory at Hamilton, Mont., announced that he had injected the yolks of fertile, six-day-old chicken eggs with viruses of typhus fever as well as those of the related Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which occurs chiefly in Western States...
...Named after Howard Taylor Ricketts of Findlay, Ohio and Stanislas Josel Mathias von Prowazek of Germany, independent workers on the virus. Both died of typhus fever during...