Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maine's G.O.P. Senator Owen Brewster, visiting Detroit, caught the fever. He announced that Vandenberg was growing daily as a dark horse, even predicted that Vandenberg would lead popular polls "in a few weeks." He added flatly: "Vandenberg...
When Dr. Horace Smithy, crack young (34) surgeon of the Medical College of South Carolina, first examined his patient, he thought her trip to Charleston had been in vain. Blonde Betty Lee Woolridge was an almost classic example of the wreckage caused when a heart is crippled by rheumatic fever. At 21, Betty Lee weighed only 85 pounds; veins in her neck stood out like whipcords; her abdomen was swollen with a fluid by-product of congestive heart failure. Doctors in her home town of Canton, Ohio had told her she had only a year to live...
...Wilbur died of typhoid fever. Orville sold the company and his patents to Eastern capitalists in 1915. Orville had conceived the plane as a convenience for private citizens. He watched with pride and considerable dismay as planes became bigger and faster. Thanks to his pioneering, every nation would be made a neighbor. He had also unwittingly created an instrument of destruction that would loose unimagined violence upon the world...
...month were the changes made? Medical histories are footnote deep with the names of men who made the spectacular goat leaps to better man's health: Lister for his development of antiseptic surgery, Horace Wells and William Morton for their discovery of anesthesia, Walter Reed for taming yellow fever. More modern surgeons and technicians added bits & pieces to medical knowledge that were less dramatic. Examples...
...ailments, and the most mysterious. Mongolian lamas used to assure their followers that the world rests on the back of a monstrous frog whose every muscle twitch causes a temblor. Natives of Mozambique logically decided that their quake of 1891 was just a case of global chills & fever. Scientists now believe that the earth's crust is a mosaic of big, loose blocks that roll and toss every time they are jarred out of line. San Francisco is close to a "fault" between two such blocks. But most earthquakes are relatively harmless: the earth has at least...