Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rivers was just flowering as a Johns Hopkins pediatrician when the War broke out. As a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps he saw so much of the influenza epidemic of 1918 that after the Armistice he became a bacteriologist and the nation's foremost authority on the submicroscopic, filterable viruses which cause diseases like influenza. His great achievement, accomplished at the Rockefeller Institute, was to grow viruses in tissue cultures. This permits quantity production of unadulterated virus, so far chiefly useful for further research. Dr. Rivers latest work has been on a new disease, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, which...
Bunny soon is caught by the epidemic of Spanish Influenza which was ranging in 1918, and Robert Legins to reveal to us his personality which before we were only able to hint at from the references cast his way. He is struggling with the hardships of awkardness and self-consciousness so trying to a boy in the early teens. The author describes his feelings and his trials with the utmost tenderness and sympathy, yet giving us a faithful picture. The tragic scenes which follow on the heels of the opening chapter come to us at first through the mind...
...announcing our results at this time to get the help of other researcher and doctors. . . ." With that cautious preamble, Homeopaths Garth Wilkinsor Boericke & William Wallace Young of Philadelphia last week announced a novel method of treating pneumonia, rheumatic fever, influenza and childbed fever with injections of emulsified...
Died. John Ellis Martineau, 63, Federal Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, onetime (1927-28) Governor of Arkansas, brother-in-law of Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson; of influenza, complicated by heart disease; in Little Rock. Last December he sentenced Paul Peacher after he was convicted of slave-keeping, in the first case ever tried under a 70-year-old anti-slavery statute (TIME...
Married. Francis Edward Kelly, 33, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; and Marion McDonald, 20, of East Boston, his nurse during a recent attack of influenza; in Dorchester, Mass...