Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Mary's 104° fever and other signs, Field Physician Garfield Fred Burkhardt suspected meningitis, probably tuberculous-a disease that was invariably fatal until twelve years ago. He plunged a needle into her back and tapped the spinal fluid. Its high cell content buttressed his fears. While Navajo Nelson Bennett worked the field radio to alert the Navajo medical center at Fort Defiance for an emergency admission, Dr. Burkhardt gave Mary Grey-Eyes a massive penicillin injection. This would combat the infection if pneumococci, rather than tubercle bacilli, were the cause...
...Klondike Fever, by Pierre Berton. There are more nuggets in this book than most of the sourdoughs took from the Yukon...
...heart itself has leaped from a hesitant, tentative approach to one of great confidence: there is now nobody with acquired or congenital heart disease who cannot be considered as a prospect for surgery, and many cases can be helped. Equally important has been the successful attack on rheumatic fever, achieved mainly with penicillin. Ranking next, Dr. Wilkins listed ground gains against high blood pressure, now controlled with drugs in most patients, so that surgery is practically disappearing...
...Other victims of high blood pressure, under treatment with hexamethonium, may have "a dramatic type of respiratory disturbance," with breathing difficulties, fever, cough and chest pain, and turn blue. This, though rare, can be fatal within a month...
Writers about the gold rush, one of history's maddest mass movements, have been almost as numerous as prospectors in the Klondike. But perhaps no one has told the story with the same fullness and readable authority as Canadian Journalist Pierre Berton in The Klondike Fever. Author Berton's credentials are convincing. His father staked a claim on Quigley Gulch in 1898, and while it produced only gravel, he stayed on and lived in fabled Dawson City for 40 years. Author Berton himself lived there until he was twelve, admits that it still "haunts my dreams...