Word: tularemia
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Rabbit fever, or tularemia, a plaguelike infection to which rabbits and squirrels fall prey, can be transmitted to man either by an intermediate host-louse or flea-or by direct contact with an infected animal. It first appears as an ulcerous spot on human skin which is followed by swollen glands, chills & fever, sometimes by death. Within an ace of death -by rabbit fever had come 23-year-old Adelaide Dawson, released last week from the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital after two blood transfusions from persons who had recovered from the disease. Source of her infection, she thought...
...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...
...good hunting sense. Bob Vale has shot wild guinea fowl in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and told a bear to go scat on a Pennsylvania trout stream, but he also rephrases homely old rules like "At partridge, always crack fast"; "At rabbits, shoot low-and watch out for tularemia"; "At quail, wait, then shoot...
...that they too had never before seen anything like it. The three adjourned to Dr. Nickerson's office, thumbed through his medical books, returned to the hospital, then back to the books. Finally by a system of trial and error they diagnosed Trapper Macdougall's ailment as tularemia. Only treatment they knew of was an early blood transfusion from a human being who had recovered from the disease. Their patient was already too far gone for that. Besides, no one in New England or Canada had ever before been known to have tularemia. All they could...
...these, in astronomical quantities, are dumped in front of the Post Building for the usufruct of the poor. The Post has always sold coal--its slogan "An Extra Lump With Every Ton" was in Bonfil's best vein. When Denver's physicians announced that most of the jackrabbits had tularemia, and were inedible, when the city sealer declared that every ton of Post coal was short-weight, Mr. Bonfils refused even to be abashed. Did not every paper chute shout "The Denver Post, the People's Big Brother?" Did not the Post Building facade bear in two foot gilt that...