Word: bloodshot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average of twelve days after infection the victim gets chills, fever, headache, back and leg pains. His pulse and breath grow rapid, his tongue white and furry, his face flushed, his eyes bloodshot. He vomits often, becomes delirious, sometimes maniacal. After three to five days, his dried skin shows angry rashes. His delirium increases until he lies unconscious, his tongue dry and brown, his pulse feeble. Often his temperature rises to 108-9°, and he dies. (In some epidemics 65% have died.) Typhus is frequently complicated by bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, gangrene, paralysis...
...California, the State Department of Public Health, and the Rockefeller Foundation are working on the disease, no one yet knows what it is. It has been seen in Austria, India, Britain, Germany, Australia, Malaya, is probably carried by a virus. It usually infects only one eye, which becomes bloodshot, swollen, drips tears like a leaking faucet. At first the inner eyelid is speckled red, like trout, later looks like crimson velvet. During the second week there is occasional stabbing pain in the eyeball; after that there is little discomfort except the continual dripping...
Defense. In Akron, Ohio, a man on trial for intoxication heard the officer testify the defendant's eyes were bloodshot, defended himself by extracting a glass one, got probation...