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...Penicillin, given by injection or by mouth, is effective against pneumococcus pneumonia, streptococcus infections (e.g., childbed fever), pneumococcus and meningococcus meningitis. Penicillin is usually preferred to sulfa drugs in these diseases, since it is more powerful, and less likely than sulfa to cause complications...
...Neither sulfa drugs nor penicillin will cure or prevent tuberculosis, leprosy, typhus, tularemia, undulant fever, virus diseases (e.g., infantile paralysis), mumps (probably a virus disease), whooping cough, colds and influenza, pregnancy...
Mountains were John Muir's particular delight. Once he wrote: "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever & all the morbidness that has been hooted at me have not dimmed my glacial eye, & I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing...
...whom life has no ultimate meaning. . . . Only a small percentage of the nation today regularly joins in public worship of any kind. The war has revealed and has also accelerated a sharp decline in truthfulness and personal honesty and an alarming spread of sexual laxity and the gambling fever...
...last the litter bearers reached a room in the imperial palace. Yellow-faced and bright-eyed with fever, the poet thought of the names the mob had yelled at him, decided that they were appropriate. With death staring him in the face, he looked back over his life...