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Recently, the Crimson has not had much luck at Hanover. Dartmouth basketball squads have been fairly decent, and the rabid Indian fans right on top of the action have unnerved generations of Harvard players...
...disfiguring smallpox (so called to distinguish it from syphilis, "the great pox"). Louis Pasteur achieved a similar triumph of empiricism. Unable to isolate the microbe of rabies, he simply assumed that it was too small to be seen and developed the Pasteur treatment for victims of bites by rabid animals...
...giant brain is already grappling with the most advanced encephalopathological problems of 1975. Meanwhile, he is a first-class, unsutured, 1961-style son of a bitch. Handling several cases an ABC-hour, his kindest words for his fellow physicians are: "What the hell do you use for brains?" Rabid women bite him. But, for all his foaming at the mouth, Casey is a marvelous character in a show that accurately captures the feeling of sleepless intensity in a metropolitan hospital...
Public Health scientists got interested back in 1953 after a Florida boy was bitten by a bat that was found to be infected with rabies. The boy survived, but investigation showed that other apparently healthy bats were rabid too. At first, the danger from rabid bats seemed small because bat bites are a rare problem among humans. Then in 1956 a Texan who had been banding bats went partially blind, had convulsive seizures when he tried to drink water, and soon died. Rabies virus was found in his brain. In 1959 a California mining engineer who had been searching caves...
...summer of 1960, Dr. Constantine and his crew moved into one of these noisome spots, the Frio Cave in southern Texas. While rabid bats flew overhead spraying them with urine, they slogged into the cave carrying wire-mesh cages containing dogs, domestic cats, raccoons, ringtail cats (a raccoon-like animal of the Southwest), coyotes, grey foxes and one striped skunk. The animals were fed and tended carefully for one week, then removed and isolated. One fox, two coyotes and one ringtail cat died of rabies...