Word: typhoidal
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...just 14 years old, and spindly, when typhoid fever struck him. Lying abed, in the ghetto of Leghorn, Amedeo Modigliani raved about Italy's long-dead Renaissance, and confessed to his own longing to paint. His mother heard, and promised to send him to art school...
Reader Workman (Nov. 10, 1924) thought that TIME showed bias in referring to Methodism as a sect; ED. said he preferred sect to denomination because it was a four-letter word. Reader Goler advised us-correctly -that Airman Wilbur Wright died of typhoid, not pneumonia, as TIME had said. A brief dissertation on the subject of Cain's wife led to a longer one on Calvin Coolidge's mistaking (in a speech) a hit by Baseball's Walter Johnson for an error by Shortstop Jackson. ED. agreed that it would be silly to choose a Chief Executive...
...Typhoid in Germany, reported UNRRA, was at 30 times its normal level in September. Syphilis had a "three-to-nine-fold increase in most countries and a 20-fold increase in Germany." Belgium was recovering from a polio epidemic. But the diseases that worry UNRRA most are 1) tuberculosis, which kills those weakened by exposure and starvation, 2) influenza, which has not yet hit in force (though many Berliners had it last week), 3) the strangely virulent diphtheria which struck hundreds of thousands of central and northern Europeans in 1942 and 1943 (TIME, June...
Most of the patients described by Dr. Hinsie just never grew up. There was the married man, for example, with three children. He had diarrhea for no physical reason. The psychosomatic reason: his parents had never shown him much attention except once when he had typhoid fever (characterized by diarrhea). His wife, a woman very like his mother, and his children never gave him much notice either. Hence his diarrhea, an unconscious play for attention...
...July, dysentery spread through Berlin. The disease was carried by flies that swarmed in the wreckage, and struck an undernourished people: 705 died of it. In August came typhoid fever, which also flourishes on flies and filth. In the week of Aug. 18 there were 538 typhoid cases (up from 43 in July) and 50 deaths. (So far, no U.S. soldier has caught typhoid.) Last week the U.S. Army took on the immense job of immunizing all 900,000 civilians in its zone against typhoid and paratyphoid (similar to typhoid, but milder). In doing so, the U.S. hoped that...