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Sick with "armor fever," Manstein and his teammates brought up huge 60-ton "Tiger" tanks (Mark VI) and 70-ton "Ferdinand" self-propelled guns. Smaller tanks were given an extra skin of armor. In all, 17 tank and 18 infantry divisions were massed for the summer drive, Russians said this was history's highest ratio of tanks to infantry...
...next day came the fever, and the day after, when the photographs showed that there was a shadow on one of my lungs, I found that everything had been foreseen. . . . Excellent nurses and the highest medical authorities in the Mediterranean arrived from all quarters as if by magic. This admirable M & B [sulfapyridine was originally called May & Baker 693, after the firm which made it], from which I did not suffer any inconvenience, was used at the earliest moment and after a week's fever the intruders were repulsed. I hope all our battles will be equally well conducted...
...show old Peter Cooper his telephone. The Hewitt boys studied it, cut out a wooden earpiece, made coils and a magnet, got a piece of black enameled iron from a tintype photographer for a diaphragm, and ran wires to the bed of their brother Erskine, who had scarlet fever, found they could talk to him without breaking quarantine. The doctor was astonished. Thomas Edison demonstrated his talking machine to Peter Cooper, and the boys copied that too. They used their telephone diaphragm and the cook's rolling pin, which they stole while she was in the laundry. They...
Norfolkians might have felt better if they had recalled one seafaring Thomas Dover, who (circa 1730) combined to an unusual degree the callings of doctor and pirate. Piratical Captain Dover once described a vague malaise that sailors often get as acute catarrhal fever. He prescribed a powder with opium (to make symptoms subside) and ipecac (to make a patient sweat and give him "a sense of progress...
Since Captain Dover's time, sailors have used "cat fever" for any set of achy symptoms that a Navy doctor cannot readily diagnose. (Some Navy doctors still prescribe Dover's powder.) Last week, cat fever turned...