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...draw the line: In case of abdominal pain, laxatives should be avoided and if the pain lasts more than four hours, a doctor should be called; if a child sniffles, he probably has only a cold and it is nothing to worry about; if he has a sore throat, fever or delirium, a doctor should be summoned...
...standby, is now available only from the not-very-large stocks which were in the U.S. when Japan invaded the East Indies. It acts by destroying the asexual forms of all kinds of plasmodia in the human blood stream-the forms which produce the shivering, sweating and fever. Quinine also destroys the sexual forms of all but P. falciparum, which means that even after he is "cured" by quinine a patient with malignant tertian malaria can give the protozoa to any suitable mosquito...
...symptoms develop, start with quinine or totaquine, if possible, until fever goes down (about two or three days), follow with atabrine (about five days). After a two-day respite, give plasmochin...
...Herald Rea Cox, 34, U.S. Public Health Service bacteriologist stationed at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Mont. He found a new and safer method of making typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever vaccines-cultivating them inside half-incubated eggs. The typhus vaccine is being used by the U.S., Britain and Canada to immunize their armed forces...
Within a few days Timar is happily forgetful of his job, drinking heavily, scorning Adèle's obese, mouching husband. And then comes sudden death-to Adऑe's husband by fever, to a Negro waiter by an unknown hand. Adèle is calm as ever, boxes up her husband without a tear and persuades the infatuated Timar to use his uncle's influence to get them a partnership trading concession in the back country...