Word: typhoidal
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...Bourbons a Day. Del Webb's baseball days ended in 1925 with a crunch of cracked ribs and torn ligaments, sliding home from second on a short single, followed by a bout of typhoid fever that brought his weight down from 204 Ibs. to 99 Ibs. When he was on his feet again, he landed a job with a small contractor in Phoenix. One day, when he was working on the construction of a new grocery store, his paycheck bounced, and his employer disappeared. The grocer asked young Webb to take over the job, and the Del E. Webb...
...Poland and Yugoslavia, teams are running mass trials of new typhoid vaccines, for although a vaccine has been available for more than 50 years, its effectiveness is still not certain...
Chloromycetin. which is Parke. Davis' trade name for the potent antibiotic chloramphenicol. got FDA approval in 1949. It attacked many bacteria against which penicillin was useless, notably the typhoid bacillus; equally important, it was the first effective drug against psittacosis (caused by an unusually large virus) and against such diseases as typhus, scrub typhus and spotted fever (caused by related microbes called rickettsiae ). Not until 1952, when hundreds of thousands of patients had had the drug-often for viral respiratory infections against which neither it nor any other antibiotic is effective-did evidence arise that it had caused...
...will view both by daylight and moonlight-well, the Taj Mahal, postponement or no, always lives up to its advance billing. For her part, the First Lady was packing trunkloads of clothes by Cassini, Chez Ninon and Tassell. She had got shots for cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, typhoid and tetanus-without getting sick. She had conscientiously boned up on the customs of India and Pakistan. Only one question remained: Would her health...
...mainly isoniazid, or INH (for isonicotinic acid hydrazide). Last week in Manhattan, the National Tuberculosis Association summed up the good that isoniazid has done in a decade-and surveyed what still must be done to keep TB on the run and eventually make it as rare as smallpox or typhoid...