Word: mucus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These things are done by thousands of bureaucratic ascarides who glory in the display of arbitrary power. ... In the prolific mucus of delegated power are laid and hatched these ravenous insects...
Amebic dysentery's symptoms-severe abdominal pain, acute diarrhea, heavy discharge of mucus and blood-do not appear until 18 to 90 days after infection. To Alfred Emanuel Smith, James Aloysius Farley and some 18,000 other persons who had stayed at one of the infested hotels during the summer, Chicago's Board of Health dispatched guarded inquiries about their health. Those who reported illness were urged to consult physicians. Most cases of amebic dysentery can be cured if treated early. But U. S. physicians, unacquainted with it, often diagnose it as ulcerated colitis, peritonitis, appendicitis. Mary Louise...