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...Rammelkamp's team began this discovery while working at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyo., where many cases of rheumatic fever had developed. The researchers started with the fact that about three weeks after the beginning of a strep infection, the victim develops antibodies in his system as the streptococci are disposed...
Rheumatic fever seems to follow a streptococcus infection of the nose and upper throat. Doctors have long been aware of this fact without knowing why. Last week, Dr. Charles H. Rammelkamp announced in Cheyenne that he and a team of researchers had found out. They may thus have found out how to prevent most rheumatic fever cases...
...Longfellow described some of the horror in Evangeline, but his heroine could not possibly have found her dying Gabriel in Philadelphia's Almshouse, as the poem has it. Fever victims were not admitted...
...afraid to let Philadelphia fugitives come near. Food ran short and starvation stepped in behind disease. Prices of coffins skyrocketed. Servants fled and the few who dared hire out as nurses set their own fees. Some doctors left town in panic and many of those who stayed died from fever and fatigue. Rush himself came down with fever twice, prescribed from his bed, recovered and went on purging and bloodletting. To a panicked population he became a living symbol of strength even as his ministrations helped some toward their graves. There were some who faithfully stayed when they could have...
...might only bring gooseflesh to the ordinary arm, has produced a rash of virulently contagious novels from Llewellyn's. He first broke out in 1940 with How Green Was My Valley, which spread to over 700,000 customers and also flared up in a Hollywood movie. While the fever raged, many readers and a few critics raved that it was a great novel. By 1943, when None But the Lonely Heart appeared, Llewellyn's germ had lost some of its potency with critics, but it still took hard on the reading and moviegoing public...