Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Superior Judge Berry T. Moseley was in bed with influenza one day last month when an excited deputy sheriff rushed into his Danielsville, Ga. home, told him he had better hustle over to the jail. The 74-year-old jurist arose, put on some clothes, elbowed his way through a crowd that had just battered a two-foot hole in the jail wall. Sensing what was up. Judge Moseley mounted the steps, thundered: "This is an open violation of the law. ... I declare you all deputized as officers." The crowd quickly dispersed...
Died. Milo Reno, 70, tireless, belligerent Iowa farm strike leader, head of the National Farmers' Holiday Association (TIME, Aug. 29, 1932 et seq.); of a heart attack following influenza and pneumonia; in Excelsior Springs...
Last spring when influenza struck Barrow, Dr. Greist had the busiest period of his career. Eskimos have little resistance to influenza. In addition, hunting and fishing had brought them so little profit in recent years that they were undernourished. At the epidemic's darkest moment, Dr. Greist had 13 dead Eskimos lying in his Presbyterian church waiting until their tribesmen could get together enough wood for coffins, dig graves in the frozen earth...
Doctors have had great difficulty in analyzing the chemical changes which occur in patients who run temperatures as the result of diseases such as measles, diphtheria, influenza, tuberculosis, dysentery. Last fortnight young Dr. Ella Harriet Fishberg of Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital reported on pure fever uncomplicated by germs, viruses or poisons...
Last week 120,000 inhabitants of Milwaukee, one-fifth of the city's population, were ill with what Health Commissioner John Peter Koehler called intestinal influenza. Symptoms: severe abdominal pains, accompanied by nausea or vomiting. Only one victim died. Another victim was Dr. Koehler himself. Said he: "Ninety-five percent of the cases are very mild. I don't believe the disease is any more dangerous than seasickness...