Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anesthetized patient on the operating table was a man of 50 whose heart had been seriously damaged by rheumatic fever. Electrodes taped to his ankles and wrists led to an electrocardiograph screen. He had a blood pressure cuff on the left arm, and the usual tube down the wind pipe, hooked up to an oxygen cylinder. Surgeon Bailey-scrubbed and all but mummified in sterile gear-stepped up to the table. He drew a scalpel lightly across the patient's chest, barely breaking the skin in a thin red line, to show where he wanted the incision. Then...
Other defects may be acquired later in life, notably scarring and narrowing of the valves (especially the mitral) as the result of rheumatic fever. Following this or other diseases, these same valves instead of being "sticky" and tight may be too wide open and leaky (regurgitant...
...Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biochemist Price describes the ''immunological overlap'' among the B viruses, most of which are borne by mosquitoes or ticks. Most feared are Japanese B encephalitis, Russian spring-summer fever, St. Louis encephalitis and Murray Valley fever. *Closely related is dengue ("breakbone fever"), and also yellow fever, against which an effective vaccine has been available since...
...Price's team developed an ingenious technique against B viruses. First they inoculate the human subject with the well-proved yellow-fever vaccine. About four months later they give a shot of live West Nile virus-which infects millions in the Near East, causes distressing fevers but is usually no threat to life. After the yellow-fever shot, the subject throws off the West Nile infection readily-and in the process his system develops antibodies against it. Some months later (Dr. Price is still not sure what is the best interval), he gets a third shot, this...
...Laurentiis; DCA). Once there was an aging nobleman (Vittorio De Sica) who, having gambled away the better part of his estate, was registered incompetent and placed in the legal guardianship of his wife. The lady, of course, cut off her husband's funds at once, and his fever for the tables raged in impotence. Every day, when he went for his walk, the count would bully the doorman, who, fearing for his job, would force his son (Piero Bilancioni), a boy about ten years old, to play cards with the old rip for the usual stakes: everything the nobleman...