Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modestly, Bacteriologist James C. Small of the Philadelphia General Hospital told Director Wilmer Krusen of the Philadelphia Public Health Department that he had isolated a new, minute organism (Streptococcus cardioarthritidis) from the blood of rheumatic patients and had been able to build a serum that cured a few cases of rheumatism. Director Krusen was delighted, for the cause of rheumatism (rheumatic fever) is obscure. Doctors know as little about it as they do about cancer. Rheumatism does not kill so many people as does cancer. Yet it is responsible for one-fourth of all heart disease deaths...
Since late November influenza has been increasing throughout western Europe at so alarming a rate that public health officials have come to fear a pandemic, a world-wide occurrence of this disease, such as happened in 1918-19. Already Switzerland, Germany England and France have been severely hit. At Nantes, France, the undertakers reported last week that they were four days behind with their burials. Their crogue-morts* complained of sore feet and demanded subsidy for new shoes. In Italy the authorities claimed they have no epidemic. But no gloss was smeared over the situation in Spain, Ireland, Scotland...
...last week only 1,863 cases were reported by the U. S. Public Health Service. Said Assistant Surgeon General Claude Connor Pierce: "We have the influenza scare every year, and we find that it is present again in a mild form. We admit we are powerless to act against it, because the actual cause of influenza has never been determined. The advice we give anyone suffering from a cold or the grip at this time of the year is either to stay in bed, or at home, and not to circulate the germ...
...Epidemiologists insist that world-wide plagues of disease begin in Asia and then work towards Europe and the Americas. So the League of Nations has placed health watchers in the principal Asiatic coast cities to report by wireless the local health status. These reports are compiled and then relayed to worried, watchful Western officials. But this influenza spread caught the League unawares by starting, apparently, in Spain, just as did the influenza pandemic of 1918-19. Last week the League relayed wireless health reports of European, as well as of Occidental countries...
With her husband Eugen Jan Boissevain, she sought the Maine woods, there to recuperate from long ill-health, to work quietly on the book for The King's Henchman (TIME, Aug. 30). Two months ago, the couple disappeared from their tiny cottage, were seen no more in Maine...