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Behind Argentina's boneless neutrality, observers continued to read the Castillo. Government's fear that one more bungled German sinking of an Argentine ship would arouse to fever pitch that large part of the Argentine public which, unlike President Castillo, would gladly repudiate German designs on the Western Hemisphere...
...shattered brains and put in a vaseline gauze drain. That night we had to move and took him along with us to a bungalow on a hill. Every time bombers came over, this patient got up and ran half a mile. After five days, during which he had no fever and was walking around everywhere-drain out-we had to send him back...
This reproductive debility may be over come by a variety of treatments, including thyroid pills, and especially a quiet, moderate life with plenty of exercise and nutritious food. (Farmers, says Dr. Hamblen, seldom have to worry.) Temporary sterility may be caused by fever, or a heavy dose of sulfanilamide. Serious physical hurts, such as damaged testes, are usually irreparable. Sometimes sperm ducts, like fallopian tubes, become obstructed, can occasionally be opened by a catheter...
...next four years Kohn was shipped up and down the whole continent of Asia, where he got a taste of Russian prison camps from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. His Russian captors gave him surprising liberties, which included catching malaria and typhoid fever with only the help of a broken down Czech dentist to pull him through. For two years after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was imprisoned in the Siberian cities of Novosibersk and two other unpronounceable locations. Kohn, who just before the war had completed law school in Prague, acquired his first teaching experience in these cities...
Trypanosomiasis, or Chagas' disease, caused by a parasite spread by ticks, bed bugs, pig flies. Commonest in Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, the trypanosomes invade the lymph nodes, thyroid, heart muscles, bone marrow, etc., cause fever, heart disease, sometimes insanity. There is no effective cure...