Word: typhoidal
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...whiskery, rod-shaped germ called Bacillus dysenteriae and related to both the colon and typhoid fever germs causes bacillary dysentery. The bacillus strikes the bowels more quickly and feverishly than does the ameba. On the other hand, the bacillus does less damage than the ameba, and yields to treatment more readily. Nonetheless, seven have died of bacillary dysentery in New Jersey, 278 have been hospitalized since July. Some cases have appeared in Manhattan and surrounding New York communities, but no notable number of deaths...
...patient promptly died. Two days later Uncle Tom complained of a stomach ache. Dr. Hyde gave him a capsule and he, too, promptly died. On Thanksgiving Day, Dr. Hyde was in Independence for a family reunion. Within two weeks the entire Swope family was in bed with typhoid fever. Dr. Hyde returned to his in-laws, gave Mrs. Hyde's brother another capsule, watched him die in convulsions...
...there was a discharge on the rim nearest, so obvious and unmistakable that I fainted. I was told afterwards that the clergyman and the person on my left caught the cup before it reached the floor.' . . ."-Harold F. James, Rochester, N. Y. "I myself 'caught' typhoid fever from a sick parishioner, although I carefully washed my hands immediately after administering to them the Holy Communion."-Rev. John Munday, Temple City, Calif. "Every priest knows that many people, particularly the elderly, have very active salivary glands and that they always drool into the cup; furthermore some men have...
...wise travelers fortify themselves against typhoid, so in future purchasers of parrots, parakeets, lovebirds, macaws, may guard against psittacosis (parrot fever). At Yale Medical School last week Dr. Thomas Milton Rivers of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute announced development of a psittacosis vaccine, prepared from the sputum of recovered psittacosis patients. White mice, monkeys and finally seven of Dr. Rivers' laboratory assistants were vaccinated, proved immune to the disease...
...Macdougall was so much worse that she got a neighbor with an automobile to drive him into Greenville's hospital. Greenville's Dr. Norman Nickerson had never seen anything like the trapper's illness. With his temperature rising and falling it seemed as if he had typhoid. Yet there were no other typhoid symptoms. Dr. Nickerson called in Dr. Coombs from Augusta and Dr. Donovan from Houlton. They had a look at the patient, nodded gravely. Outside his hospital door they admitted that they too had never before seen anything like it. The three adjourned...