Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rammelkamp's team began this discovery while working at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyo., where many cases of rheumatic fever had developed. The researchers started with the fact that about three weeks after the beginning of a strep infection, the victim develops antibodies in his system as the streptococci are disposed...
Rheumatic fever seems to follow a streptococcus infection of the nose and upper throat. Doctors have long been aware of this fact without knowing why. Last week, Dr. Charles H. Rammelkamp announced in Cheyenne that he and a team of researchers had found out. They may thus have found out how to prevent most rheumatic fever cases...
Says Dr. Rammelkamp: "Since rheumatic fever attacks about 3% of strep patients at this same time, we figured that these antibodies were the culprits. So if we could cure the strep infection before the three weeks were up, the patient's body would be relieved of the necessity for producing these antibodies, thus thwarting the development of rheumatic fever...
...Longfellow described some of the horror in Evangeline, but his heroine could not possibly have found her dying Gabriel in Philadelphia's Almshouse, as the poem has it. Fever victims were not admitted...
...might only bring gooseflesh to the ordinary arm, has produced a rash of virulently contagious novels from Llewellyn's. He first broke out in 1940 with How Green Was My Valley, which spread to over 700,000 customers and also flared up in a Hollywood movie. While the fever raged, many readers and a few critics raved that it was a great novel. By 1943, when None But the Lonely Heart appeared, Llewellyn's germ had lost some of its potency with critics, but it still took hard on the reading and moviegoing public...