Word: flu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hospital had enjoyed excellent health, had never needed surgery. Now, as doctors tried to diagnose Mrs. W.'s recent stomach complaint, her husband recalled that 37 years before, while washing dishes, she had been seized with cramps and collapsed on the floor. A physician had called it intestinal flu and put her to bed. For almost two weeks she had been very ill, sometimes in a coma, and had to be forcibly fed, but then she made a fine recovery, raised her one son to manhood...
...Edward J. Krol and colleagues decided to remove it. The object, they report in the Illinois Medical Journal, was a lithopedion (stone child), a petrified fetus of three to four months' gestation. The doctors' conclusion: what had troubled Mrs. W. 37 years ago was not the flu but an ectopic pregnancy, in which the fertilized ovum had lodged in one of the Fallopian tubes. As the fetus grew, it burst the tube and escaped into the abdominal cavity. This explained the seizure during dishwashing. Gradually the fetus had become completely calcined...
...sniffles faded away last week, Asian flu was no longer a big menace to crowd-filled movie houses. Boosting totals by some 1,500,000 adult admissions (a 5.4% increase over the previous week), a sudden moviegoing upswing ended a ten-week fall in attendance that had dropped 23.7% below the same 1956 period. Except for the Midwest, the reverse trend was nationwide, and the flu-thawed East boasted the highest jump...
...flu-bug, which has played havoc with the Crimson all fall, has directed one final swipe at the squad in striking down its captain, Dave Norris. Norris spent most of last week in bed and almost certainly will not run today...
...students' chief complaints was the disorganization of the Health Center during the recent flu epidemic. Many girls were forced to remain in the dormitories while running high temperatures, and others were summoned to the Center only to be denied admittance...