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...smart Ezequiel Padilla still thought he had a chance to win: ("Nothing will make me desert, even to the ultimate sacrifice if necessary.") He was counting heavily on public reaction against the corruption of officials in power, on a growing wave of popular resentment against the fantastic mordida (bite) that Mexico's venal politicos were taking from a thousand-and-one large and petty rackets, from milk distribution to street paving...
...Bite. At Camp Butner, N.C., Private Willie Jackson lacked a dog-tag but got his pay all right when he produced his upper plate, inscribed: "Willie Jack...
...Rats bite men because they like human blood. Johns Hopkins' Curt P. Richter, Ph.D., in the Journal of the American Medical Association, says he can prove...
...bites are serious. All of the Johns Hopkins cases had infections or pieces of flesh eaten away. Seven developed rat-bite fever...
...bite fever, the original wound heals temporarily, later opens again, larger and more angry-looking, a rash develops, temperature rises to 103° or 104° F., falls to normal in a couple of days, then rises again in cycles which may recur for months. The patient may grow thin, have muscle pains, delirium, arthritis. Treatment is similar to that for syphilis and saves nearly every case...