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There is a doctor in Mexico City who gives insulin for practically anything-typhoid fever, syphilis, peritonitis, malaria, rheumatic fever. Dr. (and Lieut. Colonel) Donate Perez Garcia gives enough insulin to bring a patient to shock stage (perspiration, high pulse, coma, high blood acidity), then he injects a solution of glucose by vein to neutralize the insulin and bring the patient to. Mixed with the glucose is the drug ordinarily used to fight whatever disease he is treating. Dr. Perez Garcia believes that the insulin makes the bacteria succumb more easily to the drug...
...Francis has been harrying influenza since 1935 when, at the Rockefeller Institute, he first used ferrets to prove that influenza is solely a virus disease. (So far, two viruses have been identified, type A and type B.) In 1941 Dr. Francis found that many people with colds or hay fever have a substance in their noses which makes the virus harmless. He also found that, at least for a while, people who have recovered from flu have protective substances in their blood...
Bill Smith's father, a Honolulu policeman, is Irish-Hawaiian; his mother is English-Hawaiian. Bill did not start swimming in earnest until he was ten, when typhoid fever left him unable to walk. A coming Hawaiian swimming star, he saw the bombing of Pearl Harbor from his home porch, seven miles from the base...
...windless heat of Georgia midsummer, with a revival meeting in full swing, with nice girls (white) also discovering they are pregnant, sins being sweatingly confessed while the old Methodist hymns roll out over the darkened houses, has the quality that explorers attribute to native villages in Africa. People are fever-stricken, enervated and blinded by headaches. And after the first unexpected actions that start them on the way to tragedy, Miss Smith's characters move less like Struggling human beings than like prisoners on whom literary sentence has been passed, torpid, dazed, well-nigh speechless, and locked...
...Navy's current measles rate is ten times last year's. Scarlet fever also increased, especially on the Pacific coast...