Word: scarlets
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...these points was taken up by the Bishop's prosecutor, a gentleman who bore the high chivalric names of Charlemagne's champions: Roland & Oliver. Only two women were in court: the rector's wife, who sat among the witnesses, and a dark mysterious woman in scarlet who sat in the balcony, never spoke, fascinated the gentlemen of the Press. White-haired Dr. Davidson rushed into court breathless, flustered, 20 minutes late, followed by an infuriated taxi-driver who shouted that the defendant had slipped him a penny instead of a half-crown for his fare. Throughout...
...Government last week knew of 6,070 cases of scarlet fever in the country. This incidence was not large enough to worry about, but enough to warrant warnings. Scarlet fever was fatal to every 78th victim two years ago. Providently the purse-pinched National Institute of Health had been working on a new preventive of the disease and was able last week to announce...
...material is a toxoid. The standard method of preparing scarlet fever antitoxin has been to infect a horse with the disease and let his blood manufacture the antitoxin. Although useful, this antitoxin occasionally causes sharp reactions, is unpleasant...
...National Institute of Health makes its toxoid by treating live scarlet fever bacilli with formalin and heat. After standing two months the germs lose their virulence, form with the antitoxin a bland but adequate protection against scarlet fever...
...towel. Only survival of the pedilavium ritual was the towel-like sash of linen worn by the King's Almoner. King George in the costume of an English gentleman handed each of the 67 men and 67 women (one of each for each year of his age) a scarlet purse containing ?2 108 in gold, to take the place of the new clothing they are supposed to receive, and a white purse containing 67d in specially minted silver coins. At the week's end the recipients had much more than their ?2 153 7d to spend. Much...