Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will die from this disease, which regularly kills 100,000 U. S. people each year. But those CCC men who refuse the injections will not be so lucky. According to the averages, pneumonia will fell two out of every thousand of them, and one out of eleven who take sick may expect...
Toronto, with 327 cases of polio thus far last week became the first community on the continent to test the worth of the Peet-Schultz prophylactic nasal spray (TIME Sept. 6 et ante), by applying it to a significant number of children. Led by the Hospital for Sick Children, all the city's hospitals opened clinics for application of the spray. Soon as newspapers announced the fact, 5,000 parents brought children to get the treatment...
Ennybody thet ever stirred apple butter in a copper kettle thet held more'n 20 gallon, with a hikery or maple stirrer, in the back yard when they wuz kids is eligible ter join; providin they got sick at least twice from eatin too much apple butter on homemade bread afterwards...
Just before the German S.S. Hansa left Hamburg with 993 passengers and 400 crew for her latest Manhattan-bound voyage, seven of the crew developed high fever and nausea and were put ashore. On the high seas 24 more, including kitchen help and dining saloon stewards, took sick with identical symptoms. Twenty-four hours before the Hansa reached New York Harbor the ship's young chief surgeon, Dr. Helmuth Paul Otto Grieshaber was obliged to make up his mind on a point which involved medical ethics, maritime law and business expediency...
Having proved by bacteriologic tests that the Hansa's sick actually suffered from typhoid, health officers threatened to raise a loud scandal if she took on any passengers for Europe. Rather than face this, Captain Lehmann quietly loaded freight and mail, took on an extra doctor and nurses, sailed with his sick straight back to Germany...