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...quit in a body. Teachers were tempted to give rugged daily tests to pacify rebels, and to flunk prime offenders, but both ideas were rejected on the ground that moral, not academic, pressure is the right approach. Now the faculty committee of nine meets daily to read student fever, assigns night patrols accordingly, and encourages classroom lectures on law and order...
...cell concentration) readings fell alarmingly low, a blood transfusion lifted them above the danger level. Early this year, she was put on a regular dosage of cortisone-type hormones. This treatment carried the risk of reducing her resistance to infections. Not surprisingly, Mrs. Roosevelt began to run a fever. Nobody knew what was causing it. The common everyday infections, from common cold and flu to strep and staph, were soon ruled out by bedside observation and lab tests...
Outside his own specialty, Dr. Mead criticizes doctors for continuing to impose "prolonged inertia" on patients with an arterial shutdown in a leg, and on victims of rheumatic fever. Strenuous athletics, he notes, are even recommended for patients with active tuberculosis, provided they are also getting drug treatment. Excessive rest, he concludes, is the same fraudulent fad it always...
...areas, aid to education-these are still the issues that are going to get votes or lose them." Maybe so-and maybe not. In any event, at week's end Kennedy canceled trips into several states, flew back to Washington suffering from a cold accompanied by a slight fever. His illness, plus the fact that he is bypassing foreign policy while on the stump and has not held a press conference in six weeks, makes it unlikely that the voters will hear before Election Day from their President about the issues that seem to concern them most...
...there are two cutoffs: the tumors do not occur in children living above about 5,000 ft., or in areas with less than 20 in. of annual rainfall. The map of African tumor occurrence, with its highland islands of tumor-free children, almost matches the maps for yellow fever and one form of sleeping sickness...