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Undulant fever is a mysterious disease that makes uncounted millions miserable. In 1914 a French physician, Dr. Charles Nicolle, predicted that it might some day become the No. 1 human disease (it was then widely prevalent among cattle). Last week in Mexico City, delegates to a Pan American Congress on the disease agreed that, unhappily, Dr. Nicolle's prediction seemed likely to come true. Undulant fever, barely 40 years ago an ailment chiefly of the Mediterranean world,* is already a major problem in most of North and South America...
WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN (244 pp.)-Vice-Admiral Ross T. Mclntire-Putnam...
...White House physician," Admiral Mclntire explains, "may not wait until the President picks up a germ, runs a temperature. . . . The job is to keep him well . . . and that entails daily observation. . . . [The] medicine man of the Great White Father must have the run of the place . . . in parlor, bedroom, and bath...
...White House physician, Mclntire observed F.D.R. almost daily throughout his presidency. No one close to Roosevelt, says Mclntire, ever thought of him as a cripple. His stupendous vitality and cheerfulness drowned out the clicking of his duralumin braces, overshadowed the wheelchair itself. (No one was more delighted than the President when Mme. Chiang Kai-shek so far forgot his condition as to beg him not to get up and see her to the door.) Mclntire believes that, but for the strain of the war years, which made it impossible for the President to follow his schedule of exercises, he might...
...Raised to the rank of brigadier general his personal White House physician, Dr. Wallace Harry Graham, whose father is a longtime friend of Harry Truman...