Word: typhoidal
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...year passes. Florence is within a few hours of maternity when a cable comes from Switzerland. Junior, at a fashionable school, is dying of typhoid fever. Walter, distrait, ignoring the living Florence and her unborn child, arranges for a quick trip to Switzerland. He leaves, but not before she has spoken her piece...
...second phase," the report continued, "was one of increasing toxaemia [poisoning of the blood] with a dusky appearance, dry, cracked tongue, periods of delirium and exhaustion-in short, a clinical picture resembling that of a case of severe typhoid fever in the third and fourth weeks-but with the added anxiety of attacks of dyspnoea [labored breathing due to ineffective action of the heart] and cyanosis [a disordered condition of the circulation, causing a livid, bluish color in the skin], due to strain on the heart...
Another day, the House of Representatives voted Distinguished Flying Crosses to Wilbur Wright (died 1912 of typhoid fever) and Orville Wright. Orville Wright again said nothing...
...Greenwich Village district of Manhattan has a typhoid epidemic. The 58th victim fell sick last week. All caught the disease indirectly from an old man, one Frederick Moersch, carpenter, who had been helping his widowed daughter run a Village ice cream parlor. He is a typhoid carrier, immune to the disease himself, infectious to others. The New York City health department captured him and segregated him on a pest island in East River. He may be kept there for life because he broke his promise to the health department never to work around food which other people might...
Amid the tension thus created, Edward of Wales was observed to be in irritable mood. Even for this the alibi was perfect. His Royal Highness had submitted to typhoid inoculation on shipboard, had run a temperature for four days, was obviously not up to cricket. Upon landing at Mombasa, Kenya Colony, T. R. H. proceeded to Nairobi, the capital, where they put up for several days at Government House with Governor Sir Edward W. M. Grigg, before plunging into the interior of Africa after big game...