Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hiltons also cited the case of Rosa-&-Josepha Blazek, who were joined back to back, had one vagina, one rectum, but two uteri. Rosa bore a son whom both nursed. Later the pair were reported to have married one man. The 1918 epidemic of influenza killed them, aged 40, while in Chicago...
Valuable though less spectacular has been Dr. Williams' work in poliomyelitis, meningitis, influenza. Of late years she has been studying the streptococci which cause scarlet fever, erysipelas, puerperal (childbed) fever, septic sore throat. Last week she did not want to stop. New York physicians agreed that her work should not be interrupted. Dr. Williams' famed chief, Dr. Williams Hallock Park, who resisted a retirement move when he reached 70 last December, did not see how he could spare her. Said he: "We have very good bacteriologists in the department, but they haven't the breadth of view...
...water at flood tide. Precedent was broken when they went up to the course at Putney a week earlier than usual, a week ahead of Cambridge. Then bad luck began to break. Snow and biting cold set in. No. 7 poisoned his finger. No. 6 came down with influenza. A new man was seated at bow a week before the race. But these were not the least of Oxford's misfortunes. On race day last week, Cambridge won the toss for lanes, chose the wind-sheltered Surrey side of the river, an important advantage on the choppy water that...
...worth of securities he had deposited in 1920 in the Bank of Westminster. Alfonso's eldest son, the easy-bleeding Count of Covadonga who renounced his rights to Spain's empty throne last year by marrying a Cuban girl, lay ill with influenza in Paris last week. To his bedside and to meet his wife-nurse for the first time went his mother, Victoria, and his two sisters...
...bystanders expected, but the first of 115 pieces of luggage. Few minutes later Mr. Rockefeller, well-bundled in wraps and ear muffs and accompanied by his son John Jr., was driven up in a big, black sedan. Delayed at Pocantico Hills some three months by an attack of influenza, he was at last ready for his annual trip to his winter home at Ormond Beach, Fla. The announcement day before his departure that he had given up the trip was unexplained. Before his wheel-chair was hoisted into the Pullman a friend asked: "How do you feel?" "Splendid!" said...