Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandchildren and divers in-laws from their drought-blighted farmstead in North Dakota to a 19-room house at Columbia Falls, Mont., Antone Hoerner killed & cured enough hogs to make sausages and ham to carry them through the winter. Shortly before Christmas nine well-fed Hoerners simultaneously took sick at their stomachs, vomited, developed fever. Doctors thought that they had eaten apples from which poisonous insecticide had not been thoroughly washed. As more Hoerners took sick with the same symptoms, doctors suspected typhoid fever. But by the time ten-year-old Daniel Hoerner died, doctors knew that an epidemic...
...average youngster is sick in bed seven days of the year, the average oldster 35 days...
...million five hundred thousand people (42% of the 6,000,000 sick every day) suffer from chronic diseases-heart disease, hardening of the arteries, rheumatism, nervous diseases...
...Relief and low-income families are sick longer as well as more often than better-financed families. They call doctors less often. But the poor, especially in big cities, get to stay in hospitals longer than their better-off neighbors...
...good-looking woman osteopath of Miami tossed the subject of "mercy deaths" into the news again last week by poisoning her incurably sick daughter Barbara and then trying to kill herself. In a typical note Dr. Frances A. Tuttle tried to explain: "Barbara is sick. . . . I don't want her to stay behind and suffer. . . . I am too tired and sick to hold...