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Smith entered early this spring with a Strep throat, was issued his pajamas and water, absorbent little gray cotton slippers, and put on a three-hour penicillin schedule. His fever promptly dropped, and he, too, began to beg to get out. But Strep throats are tricky things, and Stillman care is cautions. Smith stayed in the small respiratory ward three weeks; the first week was the best. He discovered a batch of jig-saw puzzles thoughtfully placed on a shelf in the ward, and completed the lot, though all were marked with "seven damn pieces missing" or similar discouraging comments...
Heart specialists have found rheumatic fever a complicated, baffling disease. Though it is usually preceded by a streptococcus infection (e.g., a "strep" throat, scarlet fever), researchers have not been able to establish the connection between the germ (hemolytic streptococcus) and R.F. It seems to thrive best in crowded slums, but it is not unusually prevalent among Negroes. It is chronically high in sparsely settled Colorado...
...most thorough campaigns yet mapped against the disease got under way at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University. Directing the work were two well-matched experts: Dr. Francis Schwentker, 42, new head of the Hopkins pediatric staff who has just finished eight years of research on strep infections, and Dr. Helen Taussig, 48, head of the Hopkins Children's Heart Clinic and a famed authority on "blue babies...
...years the medical profession has politely raised its eyebrows and looked down its nose at Bacteriologist Edward Carl Rosenow. But Dr. Rosenow, a stubborn man, has persisted in his peculiar obsession. Says he: there is a strep-polio axis-somehow, in ways no doctor understands, streptococcus plays a malignant part in infantile paralysis. (A coccus is a round bacterium large enough to be seen with an ordinary microscope. A virus is so small it can be seen only with an electron microscope, has some bacteria-like and some protein-like qualities-no one knows for sure whether it is living...
...Greater Boston aestheticians have been waiting. It may prove the need for fewer symphony intermissions, or chaperoned opera boxes, but whatever the ultimate result, a lost frat pin for Heindel is the immediate one . . . With Hope's recuperation, we are again intact. The does have diagnosed his case as "strep" throat, but with Bunyard's pneumonia, Noel's flu, and Johnson's (either one) general condition, that's hard to understand--I guess this married life affects different ones in different ways . . . On the other hand, with a ski party planned in the 4th company this weekend...