Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pont Company as the correct answer to the question which appeared in the book's advertisements: "What industrial corporation engaged in war work was charged by the U. S. Government with billing it $75 for the burial of each of its employes who died during an influenza epidemic-and then sold the bodies for $11 each...
This week an Associated Press correspondent "somewhere in the Yangtze Valley" with Generalissimo & Mme Chiang was permitted to flash that influenza had bedded the Wife of the Year, quoted the Man of the Year as saying: "Tell America to have complete confidence in us. The tide of battle is turning and victory eventually will be ours...
...Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. Joseph E. Davies, advised by cable that Mrs. Davies was down with influenza in Washington, left his daughter Emlen studying law in Moscow last week, caught the Normandie...
February 6, Maxwell Finland '22, instructor in Medicine, "Colds, Influenza, and Pneumonia"; February 13, John Rock '14, assistant in Gynaecology, "Menstrual Disorders and the Menopause" (for women only); February 20, F. Dennette Adams, instructor in Medicine, "Overweight and Underweight"; February 27, Channing Frothingham '02, Overseer, and Richard H. Miller '04, clinical professor of Surgery, "Pain in the Abdomen...
Most communicable of all contagious diseases is measles. It spreads much faster than its nearest morbid rivals, smallpox and influenza. And it infects practically every person exposed to it, unless he has been immunized by an attack of the disease. In this country next winter and spring some 800,000 people, chiefly children, will catch measles. Only a few will die, and those the victims chiefly of broncho-pneumonia which often accompanies a measles attack. But many will suffer the rest of their lives from poor hearing which measles often initiates...