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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...
...greeted with a succession of gutterals even in those class rooms where the practise is frowned upon. Its debilitating influence on colds makes the catching of them merely nominal. In reality they lie at one's feet for the making. Now an open window means an absorbing flow of mucus. Wet feet provoke an interesting condition wherein the brain becomes remote from the sensual world, an aching entity in which the weariest efforts of the will can not arouse a thought. And it is suggested that if make them the principal subject of con-efforts of the will...
...held by doctors is that infectious diseases, caught usually in the springtime, affect the pituitary gland. This is an endocrine gland the size of a big pea, located underneath the cerebrum and on about a line with the bridge of the nose. Formerly medicos supposed that it secreted the mucus of the nose. (In Latin pituita means phlegm.) Actually it controls the growth of the bones of body?those of the arms and legs. When it is pathologically oversize, it makes giants of the diseased persons; when undersize it dwarfs them. Irritated temporarily by springtime disease, it, in good theory...