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...Johnny Brent, who is quarantined at home during an outbreak of scarlet fever at his school. In his wanderings around the neighborhood he finds a younger boy playing with a very large and powerful magnet. Before long he tricks the child into swapping the magnet for an "invisible watch." As Johnny goes along the streets on his way home, testing the magnet on nails and old bits of iron, remorse suddenly strikes him. But it's too late; fate begins to torment...
Pediatricians in & around Washington had been concerned in recent summers over an "unknown" illness which had broken out among children. Symptoms: sudden and high fever, small blisters in the throat, occasional loss of appetite, vomiting, convulsions and prostration, head-and stomachache. Dr. R. J. Huebner and other doctors hunted high & low in medical literature for description of such a disease but found none. Deciding it was a new one, they prepared to report it in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Some churchmen were shocked by the recommendations, but most press comment was favorable. Said the Daily Express: "It acknowledges the freedom of the adult citizen, his good sense and his right to govern his own conduct . . . dispels the notion that gambling in Britain is a dangerous fever or that men starve their children to put cash on the dogs...
Many Americans used to suffer from complaints known as hay fever, asthma, or hives, for which they tried all manner of "simples" with scant success. Nowadays, they talk knowingly about their allergies, take scratch and patch tests and complicated treatments, and many enjoy marked relief. But most cannot hope to be cured; they must learn to live with their allergies, and for this they should understand them...
...first place, says Feinberg, the field is a huge one. There are in the U.S., he estimates, about 10 million allergy victims; about 2,000,000 have asthma, up to 7,000,000 have hay fever and the rest an assortment of hives, eczema, sinus disorders, reactions to foods, allergic headaches, contact allergies such as ivy poisoning, serum sickness and sensitivity to drugs...