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...health. Many a European surgeon avoids operations on days when the south wind blows (some think hemorrhages and serious clots are more common on those days). In Alpine sanatoriums. tuberculosis patients are said to get worse when a warm, moist wind is blowing. Allergists are sure that hay fever and some other allergic diseases are airborne...
Between the great cycles come lesser cycles, when the cold advances or retreats a little. This is probably what is happening now; it may be only a short spell of fever, to be followed soon by chills. But there are cheering precedents in history...
...American Heart Association branded as "shocking" the nation's neglect of rheumatic fever, among diseases the No. 1 killer...
...Bubonic plague. 3. Leprosy. 5. Yellow fever...
...football fever swept Cambridge early and stayed late right up to that final, windy afternoon in November when 57,000 fans jammed into the Stadium to watch a once-beaten Crimson eleven smash across two quick, first-period touchdowns and then knuckle under to superior Eli power, as the script had specified. There was always next year, of course, and with seven of the Varsity regulars returning, it was fairly easy to start looking ahead...