Word: fever
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...swampish"; it is dry, in fact, too dry for its own good. For years both the Insular and Federal Governments have been carrying out a campaign against malaria by draining and filling in the few swamps, and except in a few places malaria has been greatly controlled. Yellow fever has never been prevalent...
...inform you that more than 85% of our production of rum is guzzled in the States and of the remaining 15% a goodly part is imbibed in Cuba libres by our resident continental fellow citizens. And as to our island being feverish, let me tell you that the only fever that we have now in Puerto Rico is the high temperature you have raised in all your readers here...
...stimulate U.S. medical research in Latin America, Journalist Charles Morrow Wilson has published an account of its diseases, called Ambassadors in White (Henry Holt; $3.50). The book contains biographies of U.S. yellow-fever "ambassadors" (Gorgas, Reed, Finlay, Noguchi) and strange tales of native doctors. Its descriptions of unfamiliar tropical diseases may be startling to U.S. readers. Some of them...
...Oroya fever of the highland Andes, apparently caused by nocturnal, blood sucking flies (phlebotomi). The first phase of the disease is a raging fever, highly in fectious, usually fatal; the second, an eruption of pea-like warts on knees, elbows, face. For this menace there is no known prevention, no known cure...
...Just a man of wrath, such as Kansas often develops, as for instance old John Brown. Wrath in Kansas has moved more men to wreck their lives and fan the flames of fleeting fame than have been glorified in most States. This is the case of the old Kansas fever-diagnosed modernly as ants in your pants...