Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calling penicillin "an allergic hazard," Captain Robert L. Gilman reported that reactions in pre-sensitized patients are marked by "chills, fever, prostration, arthritic symptoms and shock." Recovery takes a long time, and there may be serious relapses. The ultimate absurdity, according to Oilman: using penicillin to treat vague complaints when the patient is actually suffering from a reaction to penicillin itself...
Several of the diseases which Dr. Haas said might be spread by saboteurs or enemy raiders cannot be effectively guarded against by inoculation-e.g., influenza, parrot fever, Q fever, tularemia, some fungus infections, botulism.* And even in cases where immunity can be given, individual inoculation is costly and cumbersome. Dr. Haas suggests that forward-looking researchers try to figure out a way of giving simultaneous protection to hundreds of people in an auditorium by forcing the immunizing agent into the air-circulating system...
...treasurer of the New York Security Dealers Association.) Nevertheless, she feels at home in the telegraph business. "I was brought up on it," she says. "I learned the Morse code when I was eight; my father taught it to me. When my brother Charles* and I had scarlet fever we rigged up a line from room to room...
...course the volume of male conversation runs up to a fever pitch on the return trip...
Last spring, in a fever of administrative efficiency, the faculty amputated a week of shopping time, reducing the period to its present six day by eliminating "change without liability." The faculty complained that the old petition deadline delayed hour exams and created administrative troubles. It also though that, because of nomadic course-samplers, some professors hesitated before really beginning their courses, while others used up all their best jokes in an effort to sell the course...