Word: fever
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
London's Daily Express indignantly told a vinous tale. Its point: even the British Government has been touched by the profit fever which has kicked the prices of scarce luxuries skyward in Britain. Said the Express...
...With susceptibility to rheumatic fever is usually found a long, slim build, a childlike expression, lack of bodily symmetry. A guess at such a patient's age is likely...
...dear readers, in your spare time, analyze the foregoing items. If you recognize in them a semblance of verity, by all means, examine yourself. My friend, you will have succumbed to the insidious devices of Scuttlebutt Fever! For that's what this is, old man, that's what this...
...Russian doctors are convinced that ACS can1) reduce the severity of typhus, childbed fever and other serious infections, 2) "save many thousands of years in human life annually" by preventing recurrence of cancer after operation, 3) help schizophrenic and other insane patients, probably by improving the health of nerve fibers, 4) fight rheumatism ("against acute arthritis it is a quick and certain cure"), hardening of the arteries and several other chronic diseases, 5) speed healing of wounds, burns, frostbite injuries. But they warn that ACS is harmful in certain heart diseases...
Toxoplasmosis is a "new" disease, though African rodents and people have probably suffered from it since germs began. It often kills its victims soon after the first appearance of symptoms-rash, fever, lung infection, blindness and, in children, convulsions. But there was good news about toxoplasmosis in last week's Journal of the A.M.A.: Harvard's Drs. David Weinman and Robert Berne have proved that sulfapyridine cures the disease in 95 out of 100 mice even in very late stages of the disease...