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...patient with chronic symptoms that are hard to diagnose should be suspected of having chronic undulant fever. That is, if he has ever drunk unpasteurized milk, as who has not? This is the conclusion which two Indiana small-town doctors, Neal Davis of Lowell (pop. 1,450) and Dan L. Urschel of Mentone (pop. 730), reached independently after seeing many such cases. Nobody paid much attention to this mild form of undulant fever until Drs. Urschel and Davis began calling attention to it in the Indiana State Medical Association Journal...
...Cure. In contrast to the well-known acute form, chronic patients usually have little if any fever and may report any combination of 34 different symptoms. The most common symptom is tiredness...
...Urschel says that 48 out of 124 chronically ill patients had undulant fever (he uses skin tests as well as symptoms in diagnosis). The average chronic undulant fever patient had been sick three years, eight months. Both Drs. Urschel and Davis treat patients with undulant fever vaccine in small, gradually increasing injections, spread over several months; and both refuse to consider any patient cured, because relapses are fairly common...
...your fever now? Better, we hope...
...just one simoleon everyone may dance the fever bug right off of his brow. It may be your last chance to dance to a civilized orchestra, your next will probably have a major drum section. Place that dollar in the hands of the nearest Morale officer and plan to attend the Senior dance July 24th. Those who attended the last one will tell you that dancing plays a minor role in the evening...