Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those of Shangri-La, and the passes that lead into them just as forbidding. Icy winds howl along the snowswept plains behind the mountain passes to discourage the traveler. Rugged barriers of snow and ice rise as high as 24,000 ft. Dense semitropical growth clogs the lower valleys. Fever haunts the forests, making them uninhabitable to all except endlessly prowling tigers and rhinos...
...Rubber Pistons. In July, they found their volunteer: a man of 41 whose mitral valve (between the upper and lower quarters of the heart's left side) was not working right because of rheumatic-fever scars. His chest was opened. Through a vein leading from a lung, a tube was slipped into the upper left side of the heart. This drew blood out of the heart to the six-cylinder pump, where fingerlike rubber pistons boosted it on its way. From the pump another tube led the pulsing blood back to the patient's aorta, where it would...
...Died. Boastful, untruthful, utterly incompetent, Apthorpe dies of fever in a West African hospital. But it is only when he is on his deathbed, "staring at the sun-blinds with his hands empty on the counterpane," that the reader grasps the true nature of Waugh's creation. Captain Apthorpe is Shakespeare's Falstaff, perfectly brought up-to-date, but with his roots set firmly in the historic past. And it is Brigadier Ritchie-Hook who drives him to his death, much as King Henry V impatiently rid his army of "that stuff'd cloakbag of guts...
...five times. It leaked out, anyway. They still cannot tell whether the plastic valve can be used in other types of heart disease. All they will say now is that they expect it to be a big help in many cases of damage to the aorta caused by rheumatic fever. (The exceptions: the very young, the feeble and the aged.) There are thousands of such cases in the U.S. each year...
...striking thing about Dr. Fremont-Smith's patients was that only one of the ten cancer victims had gone to see him because she was worried about cancer. The others had such unrelated complaints as fatigue, arthritis, hay fever and headaches. Dr. Fremont-Smith believes that physicians in general will find an early, curable cancer of the cervix in one out of every hundred new patients, if only they will give the test...