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...accident a Manhattan physician. Dr. Lucy Du Bois Porter Sutton, 40, has discovered a quick palliative if not a certain cure for St. Vitus's Dance, hideous childhood disease. Victims twitch, quiver, quake and grimace uncouthly. The posturings resemble a grotesque dance like the oldtime "shimmy" and "Charleston." During the ignorant Middle Ages victims of the disease were taken to "dance" before images of St. Vitus, patron of comedians.* It was believed that those who danced before St. Vitus would be certain of good health during the following year. Hence the general name for the disease. The medical term...
...body's ways of killing germs. For every germ there is a maximum temperature above which it cannot live. Experimentally, doctors are trying to raise body temperature above the germ-death heat by injecting fever-causing germs or nonspecific proteins, or by electricity. Dr. Sutton, having noted her patient's recovery from St. Vitus's Dance after a poison-produced fever, took a chance on another St. Vitus child by injecting typhoid serum. This second case grew feverish, sweated, recovered. She tried typhoid-paratyphoid serum on another. He too sweated and recovered. When she had cured...
...representative from the Sutton Division is probably the best known British M.P. not of Cabinet rank: angular Lady Nancy Astor, newly returned from consorting with Communists in Soviet Russia...
...professional bosom the secret of the Plymouth Gentleman's identity, nor would it hint whether his conscience was bothered by Lady Astor's visit to the Soviets, her U.S. origin, her advocacy of Prohibition or her own inimitable personality. The Conservative Executive Committee of the Sutton Division took the advertisement seriously enough to hold an emergency meeting, and pass a resolution of "unabated confidence" in their Lady of Plymouth and Virginia...
Married. Grady L. Boatwright. Secret Service bodyguard to Mrs. Hoover; and a Miss Mabel Craven of Sutton, W. Va.; in Washington; while President & Mrs. Hoover were weekending on the Rapidan...