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Rocky Mountain spotted fever is now in full seasonal upswing. But the U.S. Public Health Service reassuringly pointed out that, newspaper reports notwithstanding, there is no epidemic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, less spotted fever (112 cases) so far this year than so far last year (126 cases...
...Navy now authorizes the use of penicillin in all cases of gonorrhea. The few cases which do not respond to it are still treated with sulfa drugs and/or with artificial fever...
...gram of sulfadiazine a day last year protected a quarter of a million Navy men for months from a dangerous streptococcus infection which was going the rounds of the Navy, causing sore throats, scarlet fever, even meningitis. Only about one man in 1,000 had a bad reaction...
Aimee Semple MacPherson, 53, Los Angeles evangelist-in-white who prefers folding money in the collection plate, was back on the job after a tough bout with tropical fever: "I have been close to the valley of the shadow...
When Hump-Happy was first tried out, men came out of the fever-ridden jungles to see it. Hump-Happy's hairy-chested girls and hairy-chested jokes hit them just right. Within a few weeks Hump-Happy went on tour, has been on the move ever since...