Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young Are Different. Mother Mary of Kevelaer, herself a victim of rheumatic fever, teamed with Dr. Taran to build it into an all-inclusive institution for the total care and rehabilitation of children and young adults crippled by heart disorders-some born with defective valves or blood vessels, others damaged in childhood by diseases. They added wing after wing, until now St. Francis has 200 beds, making it the biggest specialized hospital of its kind in the U.S. It is nonsectarian in selection of its patients, most of whom come from poor homes, where rheumatic fever strikes oftenest...
...Taran began by making a sharp distinction between heart disease in the young and in the aged. In the young, he felt, many more disorders were of a type that could be corrected by surgery; gradually the ravages of rheumatic fever (usually scarring and narrowing of valves) were added to the list. But the process is often long and tedious. Many patients at St. Francis stay for two years, and some may be a year or more in a special room, breathing 50% oxygen. No matter how long their treatment may take, the youngsters at St. Francis can count...
Thanks to penicillin, which makes it possible to prevent many recurrences of rheumatic fever, and to recent advances in surgery, Dr. Taran believes that medical science is well on the way to conquering heart disease in the young. To the surgeons at St. Francis, the new operating theater will be a powerful reinforcement...
...stories were as good as these. There was a woman with a heart valve scarred by rheumatic fever, which worked well after surgery but has recently begun to leak again. Four of the reunionists had symptoms which led to their being promptly hospitalized for observation and possibly further treatment. But the assemblage proved its point: delicate surgery inside the heart is getting safer, and it can bring many a case, once thought hopeless, back to healthy, happy living. The patients at their dinner dance gave their loudest applause to a doctor who introduced Surgeon Bailey with the words...
...ashes of parody: "My success has encouraged such a shoal of ill-spawned monsters to crawl into public notice, under the title of Scots Poets, that the very term, Scots Poetry, borders on the burlesque." When his excise pay "was cut, Burns went to bed with a fever, and on July 12, 1796, begged ?10 of a cousin: "A rascal of a Haberdasher to whom I owe a considerable bill . . . has commenced a process against me . . . O, James! . . . Save me from the horrors of a jail!" Within a fortnight, and before the ten-pound check or the haberdasher, death came...