Word: hydrophobia
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Master of Carville is blue-eyed, white-thatched Dr. Hermon Erwin Hasseltine.Shy in company, but bold in his laboratory, Dr. Hasseltine has traveled from Alaska to Hawaii exploring such rare diseases as hydrophobia, undulant fever, psittacosis (parrot fever)-which he has twice come down with. An authority on leprosy, at 58 he still devotes all his spare hours to research...
...prattle about professional ethics, and with the A.M.A. in its sanctimonious stand as the sole arbiter of human health; I am vaguely reminded of one Louis Pasteur, chemist, and of how the medical confession, in a united front, battled his method of inoculation with virus to combat and cure hydrophobia...
Denouncing this attitude as "subversive," Editor Fishbein declared that dog bites are not matters for self-treatment but for physicians and public health officials. As against Mr. Terhune's belief in the rarity of hydrophobia, he gave these data...
...solve their traffic problems and divert traffic from Harvard Square by extending Memorial Drive along the Charles's left bank, but that was too easy. They might well have thrown a bridge across the stream from Gerry's Landing, but that, ah, that was too hard. The bridgebuilders had hydrophobia, a condition unusual in bridgebuilders, and calling for unusual measures. Eureka, they would build the bridge on dry land! Did one but object that such a bridge would not span the river, the masters of the scheme should shake their heads wisely and murmur, "Mahomet!" So the river will...
...sound right valiantly through the Forest of Ardennes. After his death Hubert was sainted; he had traditionally been converted on a Good Friday when, hunting, he saw a miraculous stag with a shining crucifix between its antlers. A patron of hunters, St. Hubert may be invoked in cases of hydrophobia...