Word: tickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, D. C., laboratory Dr. Edward Francis, of the U. S. Public Health Service allowed himself to be bitten by a baby California tick, promptly contracted relapsing fever, a highly dangerous disease accompanied by high temperatures, aching joints. Dr. Francis had previously infected himself with tularemia ("rabbit fevers''), undulant (malta) fever. Rocky Mountain spotted fever; advanced medical knowledge of each malady. Last week Dr. Francis was recovering again after having proved that relapsing fever is carried by California ticks, that female ticks infect their progeny before birth...
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is caused by a microscopic speck which may be an especially tiny bacterium or an especially big virus. Bacteriologists cannot decide which. It is transmitted to man by a tick called Dermacentor andersoni, which in an unknown manner migrated and adapted itself to the greenery of the Appalachian foothills...
Picnickers in the woods around Washington are apt to have the tick jump on their necks and hide in the hair of the scruff. Public health bulletins to local papers advised that the insects be picked off the neck very carefully, without crushing. Children coming in from play in gardens or woods should be gone over. So should dogs, cats and other pets in whose fur the tick might find an intermediate spring board...
Argentine cattlemen would like to improve the milk production of their cows by breeding them with high-grade imported bulls. But bulls bought from the U. S. usually succumb to the tick fever now prevalent in Argentina. For the same reason U. S. owners are unwilling to ship their bulls to South America on a loan basis. Owners of the best bulls, in fact, generally refuse to ship their prizes anywhere at all, demand that the cows be brought to them. Nevertheless for many months Argentine cattlemen have had their eyes on two fine Holstein-Friesian bulls...
Fortnight ago in Syracuse, N. Y., a postal clerk came upon a parcel addressed to "Comrade Chancellor Charles Flint, Syracuse University." When the parcel gave off a muffled tick, the clerk turned white as a miller, rushed the parcel to the postmaster. The postmaster sent for the police. The police sent for a Department of Justice expert on infernal machines. The expert dunked the parcel in a pail of water, prodded it with a long pole, gingerly took it apart. Disclosed was an arrangement of cardboard tubes, cotton wadding, piano wire, an alarm clock works and some sort of granulated...