Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientists were disease detectives at work on a medical whodunit that began last month when a physician at the Portland Veterans Administration Hospital phoned the State Board of Health to report "a patient under treatment for pneumonia of an unusual character." The doctor suspected psittacosis (parrot fever), and was right. It turned out that the patient, a laborer living in a skid row hotel, had been hired to help treat sick turkeys at a 7,000-bird farm on Sauvie Island. With proper antibiotic treatment the laborer is recovering, but 2,000 of the turkeys died. Of 1,500 turkeys...
Patrick soon runs an erotic fever of his own over a nubile, neo-pagan teenager named Soula. Little more than fugitive kisses and caresses, the affair with Soula is tragically complicated by the fact that her brother Stavro, a boy with crypto-homosexual longings, feels he should rank first in Patrick's affections. By novel's end, Soula has died at her brother's hand. Resignedly estranged from each other, Patrick and Iris leave Corfu chewing the bitter rind of memory, all that is left of their brief repast of the juices and joys of the sensuous...
...unknown origin, infectious blushing causes nothing worse than a ruddy rash, perhaps a low fever, and some itching as it subsides. The great majority of victims have been children, who were ordered kept out of school for five days...
...Doctors once numbered "primary specific fevers" of childhood (scarlet fever, measles, German measles) and called Duke's disease (no longer recognized) the "fourth disease." They made infectious blushing the fifth. It is not to be confused with "erythema of the ninth day," a reaction to arsenical drugs...
...Common Cold Foundation, all about the researchers' failures, then added: "However, I am confident that we will find the solution to the problem, probably within the next five years." But he dashed hopes for a common-cold vaccine. Since a cold, unlike other virus diseases, e.g., measles, yellow fever, polio, confers only the briefest immunity against reinfection, there seems little chance that an effective vaccine can be prepared. Dr. Dingle's best bet: a drug, still to be discovered, that will knock out the elusive common-cold virus...