Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...14th Century, which destroyed a fourth of Europe's inhabitants, or the Great Plague of London, which killed 70,000 people in 1665. Surprised last week were the readers of Science and Science News Letter to find that seven States in the western U. S. are plague-stricken.-* Not humans, but thousands of rats and squirrels are the victims. The situation, however, is serious, since the disease is readily transmitted from animals to man by fleas. Five human cases of plague have appeared this year, and the U. S. Public Health Service is out to top its 1937 record...
...squirrels at sight. Rat burrows are sprayed with calcium cyanide. Rat-proofing of buildings is strongly urged, and, when necessary, incoming ships are fumigated. By such constant, vigilant rat-catching, Dr. Eskey expects to forestall an epidemic such as Los Angeles had, in 1924, when 24 people were stricken...
...Relations chief: Dr. Ben Mark Cherrington of the University of Denver. A onetime University of California football coach whose size (6 ft., 200 Ib.) is calculated to impress Latin Americans, white-mopped, genial Dr. Cherrington, 52, is no doctrinaire. Twelve years ago when Capitalist James Henry Causey, his conscience stricken by the violent Denver tramway strike of 1920, undertook to finance a Foundation for the Advancement of Social Sciences at the University of Denver, he picked Ben Cherrington from a YMCA student job to direct it. Director Cherrington began by asking 150 serious thinkers, including Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Mohandas...
...during a radio speech from his room in Louisville's Kentucky Hotel, the Governor consumed more than half the contents of a pitcher of ice water brought him by Waiter Joe Berry. State Finance Director Dan Talbott and a State trooper also drank some. All three reported themselves stricken with intestinal cramps and chills which Chandler doctors diagnosed as "cyanotic." The Governor stayed in bed for a week. The Governor's physicians insisted he had been almost fatally poisoned. The Governor's guards declared there had been prior poisoning attempts...
...August 1936, Dr. Ralph Robertson Mellon of Pittsburgh* stood at the bedside of a patient stricken with deadly peritonitis. In desperation he fed her a German-made drug, never before used in the U. S. The patient rapidly recovered. Dr. Mellon then plunged into an intensive study of the action of this drug, a combination of benzene, a sulfur compound and naphthalene, called prontosil. He learned that: 1) one of its three ingredients, naphthalene, was medically worthless; 2) sulfanilamide, a cheaper U. S. product, composed of the other two ingredients, would do everything prontosil could do. Last fortnight, together with...