Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City Sir: Your statement "Itek ... became [a] glamor stock even while . . . still operating in the red" [June 1] is not factual. Itek, founded in September 1957, initially had three profitable years, during which its sales moved from scratch to some $30 million per year, and during which it fully justified investor confidence. Itek's fourth year ended "in the red," largely as a result of unanticipated problems, now being solved...
Only recently have doctors recognized cat-scratch disease to account for the previously unexplained aches and fevers that occasionally afflict cat fanciers. And there is still plenty for doctors to learn about the oddly varied and sometimes serious forms that the disease can take, says the A.M.A. Journal. Latest information: it can be caught by a person who may not even have been scratched...
...evidence was supplied by Dr. John N. Snyder of Catonsville, Md., who treated five cases in a single family. First victim was a thoroughly scratched ten-year-old boy, who went to the doctor's office with a sore throat, swelling on one side of his face and neck, and enlarged lymph glands. The boy recovered in a couple of days without treatment. Next came his three-month-old baby brother, also suffering from a swollen neck, fever, and a lump bigger than a golf ball at the base of his neck. The baby had apparently never been scratched...
Neither Dr. Snyder nor anyone else has yet identified the actual cause of cat-scratch fever, but it is believed to be an unusually large virus-the only kind that can be effectively treated with antibiotics...
...student with a twisted sense of humor (and a bulging purse, as Harvard is rather fond of administering fines) could gambol through years of unrestrained practical and emerge without a scratch. the line between the petty prank and the felony that causes the axe to thin indeed. The Dean's Office will only smile sadly at the student who took a month's vacation to in the middle of the term, for attendance as a rule is strictly voluntary. But should a student be at his desk intently studying of Joyce he has taken from the library without signing...