Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same process as the Salk polio vaccine, using formaldehyde to inactivate the virus. The virus is one of the group that doctors ponderously call adenoidal-pharyngeal-conjunctival (from the tissues it attacks), or APC* for short. This particular APC virus causes sore throat, eye inflammation, and a fever lasting about five days...
...seven: Carl Ferdinand Cori (carbohydrate metabolism), Selman Waksman (streptomycin), Max Theiler (yellow fever), Edward Kendall and Philip Hench (cortisone), John F. Enders (virus propagation), Biochemist Vincent du Vigneaud (see SCIENCE...
...parade of eligible earls and marquesses, was too busy to notice. Too busy, that is, until the coronation, when a sharp-eyed reporter in an Abbey anteroom caught Margaret affectionately brushing off the lapels of Airman Townsend's jacket. The simple gesture was enough to set off a fever of speculation in the press, and the speculation was enough to send the faithful aide winging into exile, as air attache in Britain's embassy in Brussels. Alerted by Royal Secretary Alan Lascelles, Winston Churchill himself had given the new Queen some blunt advice: get rid of him. Elizabeth...
...esthetic enfant terrible, Cocteau in times past has taken a gamin's delight in cocking a snook at the stuffy academicians. But things change, he explained, and "one wants to be oneself and yet the opposite." Like others before him, nonconformist Cocteau had succumbed to "the Green Fever," the desire to wear the gold-embroidered green uniform of the academy's Immortals...
...more severe cases the Cleveland Clinic doctors have a growing list of hopeful treatments. And in some victims, at least, malignant hypertension can actually be reversed. For years Dr. Page used kidney extracts, which helped some patients, and pioneered with fever treatments which had similar moderate success. Not until the spring of 1951 was a drug found to control malignant hypertension. This was hydralazine. In quick succession came a series of hexamethonium compounds (followed by the related pentolinium) and more recently reserpine...