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...serpentine germ, Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae, causes the disease, affects the spleen and liver, yellows the eyes and skin, raises temperature, is not often fatal. Donald Siegle's pet dog had an attack of jaundice a fortnight before the child died, and may have transmitted the germ. But in the beginning, Dr. Vaughan knew, rats were responsible. Every tenth rat in any community harbors Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae, with no inconvenience to itself, but with grave trouble for man or beast who eats, drinks or touches food fouled...
Author Farson noted with weary spleen that all South Americans are "Yanqui-haters," that all tourist publicity is phony, that the Germans and Japanese are mak-ing mincemeat of U. S. trade. He found a Japanese circus, a Japanese typewriter repairman; Japanese had even gone into the business of making imitation shrunken human heads...
...blame the University for their stomach disorders, and criticize the quality of food served in the Union and in the Houses, would do well to divert their critical energies to the state and federal governments. Upon these, who are really the guilty parties in a never-ending crime, much spleen may well be vented, in the hope that eventually, the diet of Americans may not consist of a balanced intake of arsenic and other assorted poisons...
...until about the day of a game. Captain Dick Powell is permanently benched with a trick knee; Joe Bradley has a thigh ailment which usually allows him to play at least part of a game, recurs, and keeps him out for two or three days. Ted Robie injured his spleen in a headon tackle in the Dartmouth game and finds his return to action pretty much...
Slight, bushy-haired Congressman Rankin, has a reputation as a liberal, largely because of his ardent support of TVA, and his spleen seemed to be caused by labor trouble in Tupelo, Miss., the model TVA consumer town. There, declared Mr. Rankin, the way NLRB men had "helped destroy" the cotton mill and "the brutal manner in which they are now trying to destroy the garment factories" was "enough to stir the people of my State to revolt...