Word: typhoidal
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...case of typhoid having broken out, 400 of the 3,800 refugee Basque children sheltering in Britain were packed off by the Salvation Army to quarantine in Clapton, a north London suburb. One morning last week 50 were found missing. Kind-hearted Clapton residents, having heard rumors that the children "were being beaten & kept prisoners," had crept up to the hall, lured them away with candy, cigarets, beer. Distracted Salvation Army officers had to scour the streets to recover the truants...
...Organized Medicine logically must accept the following corollaries: 1) Every one of the 150,000 U. S. doctors must become an officer in the Federal Public Health Service, the Government to pay for all the preventive medicine which they practice in their offices, such as immunizations against smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid...
...pretty well trained the public, the hard-boiled included, not to make jokes about the insane. The theme of A Mind Mislaid is that the public has been overtrained, now takes mental illness much too seriously. A nervous breakdown, says 75-year-old Author Brown, is no worse than typhoid fever or double pneumonia. In the genial, conversational vein of his entertaining miscellanies of 19th Century New York history he now offers a relaxing account of his own three-year stay in famed Bloomingdale Hospital to prove the point...
...Cole's original researches in Medicine were on gonorrhea, a disease which is now being dramatically conquered by means of dyes and heat (TIME, May 17). He soon turned to typhoid, then to pneumonia. He has concentrated on pneumonia ever since he organized the Rockefeller Institute's Hospital in 1910, has discovered or helped discover many of the 32 types of pneumococci and serums to combat some of them. He remains a member emeritus of the Rockefeller Institute...
...stories are unpretentious and valid records of available experience. Mr. Gibson "Death in the House" gives with observant pathos a boy's emotions when his brother is dangerously ill with typhoid. Mr. Symonds contributes a pleasant piece of domestic shock in a brief reminiscence of a disturbing grandfather. Mr. Rowley begins a nervous tale of urban frustration in the idiom of Josephine Herbst...