Word: flu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...credit; and they should, as the work they are doing is just as vital. They get no glamorous uniforms, no pictures and send-off in the papers when they join up. They have no housing and rations given them, no hospitalization (unless actually injured at work, not for flu, pneumonia, or other diseases). And when "the duration and six months after" is over, they are out, with no bonus pay, and no one trying to get a job for them. They are just...
Franklin Roosevelt has not had a good winter. Like practically everyone else in Washington, he has had his colds, his touches of sinus, flu, bronchitis. But after Teheran, Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, the President's physician, took his patient firmly in hand. Since then the President has rarely missed his two swims a week, has been trying to lighten his 16-hour day. Dr. McIntire now declares the President in good shape. This week Mrs. Roosevelt announced that it would be "a week or so" before he returns to Washington, because, though he looked well when...
...Victim No. 18 was a young man whose doctor prescribed twelve sulfathiazole tablets for him for a tooth infection last summer. After the first box was used up, the young man bought another dozen, took eight. A few weeks ago he felt ill, thought he had "intestinal flu," took three more sulfa tablets. When he finally went to a doctor, he was vomiting. The doctor said: no more sulfa tablets. But it was too late...
...preliminary tests on some 200 inmates of the Ypsilanti (Mich.) State Hospital, a massive test was given last autumn to 12,500 people in eight U.S. areas. Half were vaccinated with small injections of virus inactivated by chemical treatment. Half were "vaccinated" with some phony material. During the recent flu epidemic, out of every five persons in the test who got flu only one had been vaccinated. Only variation from this average was California where, Dr. Francis says, "a number of factors" may have thrown the figures...
...viruses have been identified, type A and type B.) In 1941 Dr. Francis found that many people with colds or hay fever have a substance in their noses which makes the virus harmless. He also found that, at least for a while, people who have recovered from flu have protective substances in their blood...