Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bonny, bouncing François Lejeune, six months old, was one of those babies whose pink bottoms are easily irritated. Like many other French mothers, Mrs. Lejeune sprinkled the tender parts with Baumol baby powder. But instead of getting better, tiny François got redder, ran a fever and cried incessantly. The doctor said it was 1) colic, 2) teething, 3) oversensitive skin. Mrs. Lejeune rocked the baby, carried him about, bathed him and dusted him with Baumol. But one day poor François' skin burst out into big abscesses. Rushed to the hospital, he was given...
...quarter-final match, Seixas, despite recurrent attacks of hay fever, whipped young Rosewall in straight sets, 6-0, 6-2, 6-2. Two days later, facing Australia's "Big Fellow," rangy Ken McGregor, Seixas was a whirlwind. Rushing the net behind one of the biggest services in the game, Seixas took just 58 minutes to knock McGregor right off Melbourne's Kooyong courts. Again it was in straight sets...
Burnet, 53, was still in school when the great influenza wave struck and had no thought that it would mean so much to him later. But he went to work and became a virologist, won fame by isolating the giant virus (rickettsia) which causes Q fever. He was in London in 1933 when influenza virus was first isolated, and his interest became sharply focused. Year after year (especially during World War II, when another epidemic was feared), Burnet went on performing delicate laboratory tests with influenza strains...
...several strains of each. While in the U.S., Sir Frank has been telling colleagues about his latest discovery: two strains of the same species can interbreed and produce offspring according to Mendelian law. On its face, this does not promise much relief for the patient with a fever and a bad cough as the 1952-53 flu season gets under way. But, says Burnet, "of all virus diseases, influenza is probably the one in which mutational changes in the virus are of greatest human importance." It is his theory that the 1918-19 outbreak happened because the virus became...
...strange and dreadful things I have seen in London and elsewhere, anything so shocking as the dire neglect of soul and body exhibited in these children." Again, he describes to Miss Coutts a slum called Hickman's Folly: "wooden houses like horrible old packing cases full of fever for a countless number of years. In a broken down gallery at the back of a row of these, there was a wan child looking over at a starved old white horse . . . The sun was going down and flaring out like an angry fire at the child-and the child...