Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggested that the idea that there is a specific common-cold virus, peculiar to man, had best be abandoned completely. No fewer than 70 viruses have been shown to cause human diseases that run the gamut from the simple common cold (runny nose and other discomforts, but usually no fever) to influenza. Most discouraging for snifflers awaiting a wonder drug: in some people, at some times, viruses of supposedly the relatively harmless, common-cold class may cause disease as severe as influenza, while the more feared influenza viruses may give rise to symptoms no more severe than those...
...Santiago, from which 24,000 Spanish troops emerged on July 17, 1898, to surrender. But, thanks to bureaucratic dunderheads, victory had a swift and deadly aftermath. Kept in position through lack of orders, and on starvation rations through lack of supplies, the men sickened, and many died of yellow fever and dysentery. There were no medicines. Taps was sounded so often that it was finally banned at the burials for fear of what was happening to the survivors' morale...
...runny nose is an uncomfortable and socially embarrassing symptom, but the increased fluid secretion by the nasal mucosa is, some experts believe, one of the body's defenses against viral invasion. Drying up the mucosa (usually with anti-histamines), they say, may simply prolong the battle. The fever that results from many virus infections is also widely regarded as a major defense mechanism, might best be allowed to run its course...
...traditionally most potent fever fighter has been quinine. Thanks to its long and distinguished history as the only effective weapon against the recurrent fevers of malaria, quinine is still highly regarded in Europe and among many older Americans (especially in the recently malarial South) for treating fevers. Last week, in Munich's Medizinische Wochen-schrift, Dr. Wolfgang-Dietrich Müller damned quinine with the results of a study on thousands of patients in Bielefeld. Among those who took quinine pills at the first sniffle, Asian flu was five to ten times as common as among those...
Once More was completed last July, two months before Actress Kendall's death, at 33, of leukemia. Many of her scenes were shot while she had a high fever. Nevertheless, she gives in her last picture what is possibly her funniest film performance. At one point, while Brynner is chasing her around his den, she peers at him through the strings of a harp, and with the merest curl of the upper lip contrives to suggest that she is a caged and ferocious lioness. At another, bedded with a banging hangover, she suddenly gets a mad glint...