Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel arrived in Manila knowing full well that mangoes give her hives, but nevertheless indulged in the tempting forbidden fruit. Result: a severe rash which closed both eyes for two days and forced the postponement of a scheduled concert at Bacolod City...
...instance, students no longer eat certain kinds of pies because the sanitation staff found they tended to create gastroenteritis. In '49 a rash of sickness was traced to a contaminated meat cutter. Dining hall employees now get lectures on how to handle food, and a diarrhea epidemic in Andover court was stopped a few years ago when Dr. George Moore found its source in a clogged sewage system...
Hygiene's widespread precautionary system has prevented the spread of any major epidemic since the great flu rage of 1918. The only recent flare-up was another rash of influenza that was quickly scotched two years ago. In '48 a state-subsidized chest x-ray program found only 3 cases of active tuberculosis out of 7.563 pictures, well below the national average...
...allowed in U.S. schools, said Bestor. As educators, "we are under the most solemn obligation to proceed with care . . . The caution and circumspection characteristic of medical research is the only proper model, for we are dealing with something as precious as human life itself. Vague hypotheses, truncated experiments, rash conclusions and loose generalizations are utterly out of place...
...Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley. A skillful account of the epidemic of devil-possession which beset the French town of Loudun in the 17th century, and of the rash priest who burned for it (TIME...