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...third day she quit work at noon, went to bed. Yet it took two more days of fever, coughing, sore throat and painful eyes before Carolyn Diehl got alarmed enough to call in another doctor. He prescribed an antibiotic (tetracycline) to guard against a second, bacterial infection, and an antihistaminic (Chlor-Trimeton), and told her to breathe humid air as much as possible. She did-by sitting in a rocking chair next to a hot shower for half an hour at a stretch. Her son Marc, 6, came down with a similar but milder case; mother and son shared...
...English as a secondary language. Ultimately, Shriver and Kennedy envisage a corps of several thousand skilled Americans working on such diverse projects as vocational guidance taught by Swahili-speaking American instructors in Tanganyika and the eradication of malaria led by bright young American doctors on the ''fever coast" of Central America...
...Tone Rolls. Someone else might well have been Bobby Darin. The incumbent, born Walden Robert Cassotto in The Bronx in 1936, contracted a near-fatal case of rheumatic fever at the age of eight. His father, described by Darin as a small-scale gangster, died before Bobby was born. Supported by his mother's relief money, he grew up in one of Manhattan's toughest and poorest neighborhoods, steadily refused membership in district gangs, studied hard and learned to play the drums, won admission to the excellent Bronx High School of Science. During vacations, he picked up show...
Died. James Leonard Hanberry, 86, the last survivor of Dr. Walter Reed's 1901 yellow-fever experiment, which proved the theory that the scourge was carried by mosquitoes and not through miasmic air; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Columbia, S.C. A lanky, 25-year-old U.S. Army private stationed in Cuba's Columbia Barracks, Hanberry spent 20 nights in a screened hut, sleeping in the clothing of dead yellow-fever victims without catching the disease, was moved to another isolated shack, where he was exposed to an Aedes aegypti mosquito, which bit him on the knuckles of his right...
Behind a rather placid-seeming, professorial surface, Walter Heller seethes with drive and energy. In 1955, working on economic messages and policy papers for Governor Freeman atop a heavy academic load, Heller developed a stubborn case of rheumatic fever. Hospitalized for six months, he had a dictating machine set up beside his bed and kept right on working. He still takes a penicillin pill every morning to prevent a recurrence. For recreation back home in Minnesota, Heller used to go into the backyard and chop firewood for hours...