Word: fever
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...young doctor at Brooklyn's Bushwick hospital squinted incredulously at the thermometer in his hand. The reading: 110° Fahrenheit. Two more readings with two other thermometers convinced Dr. Moritz Wilchfort that Student Nurse Sophie Sapala, 21, suffering from undulant fever, had hit a new high in body heat and lived. High fever marks (with survival) previously recorded in medical history...
Nurse Sapala's top fever lasted less than an hour. Some other physicians were skeptical, recalled that even 108° temperatures had usually injured brain tissue, caused a quick death. Patient Sapala, recovering from the fever, suffered only temporary blurred vision, so far showed no other ill effects from her unusual experience...
...York Cotton Exchange last week, the price of March futures soared to 25.87? a pound, highest in 21 years. But the price of cotton was like a fever chart; the higher it went, the sicker Old King Cotton got. His ills were those of gluttony...
Everybody was inventing something when Mark Twain was writing some of the greatest U.S. fiction ever penned; so Mark, to whom nothing American was alien, was bound to catch the fever. "An inventor is a poet-a true poet!" he cried, when his brother, Orion Clemens, invented a "modest little drilling machine." "To invent. . . shows the presence of the patrician blood of intellect-that 'round & top of sovereignty' which separates its possessor from the common multitude & marks him as one not beholden to the caprices of politics but endowed with greatness in his own right...
...just 14 years old, and spindly, when typhoid fever struck him. Lying abed, in the ghetto of Leghorn, Amedeo Modigliani raved about Italy's long-dead Renaissance, and confessed to his own longing to paint. His mother heard, and promised to send him to art school...