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...calls it house dog disease, because only house dogs get it. The sick dog usually comes from a household where someone has a cold. The illness begins with a sore throat, mouth and bronchial infection with a little fever. Most dogs recover in a week, but some go on to a frequently fatal encephalitis with convulsions, tics, paralysis, dizziness, forgetfulness or blindness. Of 309 cases of house dog disease Dr. Whitney reports in detail, 58 died of encephalitis...
...planted 200 Victory gardens, studied 50 languages and dialects, done exercises graduated from toe-wiggling in bed to ten-mile hikes with full packs. The hospitals find that under the A.A.F. system 1) 25% fewer men have relapses; 2) convalescence from certain acute, contagious diseases (e.g., virus pneumonia, scarlet fever and measles) has been...
...half-dozen or more such cases each day, to let the population know how badly some Germans are behaving, how ruthlessly the regime is punishing the slightest slip in wartime discipline. But to the rest of the world, this policy of revelation is a significant squiggle on the German fever chart, a new piece of evidence that Germany is weakening-militarily, politically, psychologically...
...edge of the abyss of world dictatorship, Wellington's task was to prove to the people by his leadership that conservatism was in their interest, as he had proved to his army that his strategy was better than Napoleon's. Wellington suffered from many things-fever and loneliness in India that turned his hair grey at 32, a botched marriage; disgrace and empty victory and the fanatical hatred of some of the keenest brains in the Empire. He suffered from the misuse and thwarting of his genius from his childhood to his old age, wounds and hazards...
...eight was working overtime, with 258 undergraduates and a constantly varying number of postgraduates. The fear that inspired this activity is that U.S. citizens, returning from far-off fronts, may bring home a host of new, dangerous or repulsive diseases. Among the less familiar ones: African sleeping sickness, relapsing fever (a periodic fever transmitted by bedbugs), schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, trypanosomiasis (all three, parasitic infestations), yaws (a type of stubborn skin sore indigenous to the tropics). Says Dr. Faust: fortunately, most tropical epidemics are "not like flash floods, but like slowly mounting river stages from spring thaws, giving ample time for tightened...