Word: fever
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Franklin Roosevelt was not immune to the fever blowing across the world from Singapore. War nerves set the President to snapping irritably at Congress, at the people, at inquisitive newsmen...
...other inoculations,* the entire U. S. Army is to be vaccinated against yellow fever. Secretary Stimson gave the order last week. The vaccine, developed in 1936 by the Rockefeller Foundation, is made from yellow-fever virus grown on chick embryos. One dose immunizes against the deadly, mosquito-borne disease for at least two to three years...
...cootie was a joke to many people who had never been bitten by one. Even itching soldiers stoically made a joke out of it. On the Western Front, thanks to frequent delousing and other precautions, the cootie seldom brought anything worse than a comparatively mild infliction called trench fever. But to millions of Germans today as to other millions in many of history's wars, the cootie means horror and death in the form of typhus...
...average of twelve days after infection the victim gets chills, fever, headache, back and leg pains. His pulse and breath grow rapid, his tongue white and furry, his face flushed, his eyes bloodshot. He vomits often, becomes delirious, sometimes maniacal. After three to five days, his dried skin shows angry rashes. His delirium increases until he lies unconscious, his tongue dry and brown, his pulse feeble. Often his temperature rises to 108-9°, and he dies. (In some epidemics 65% have died.) Typhus is frequently complicated by bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, gangrene, paralysis...
...Bowditch' in most sea chests, and the ship's officer and the seaman were to spread the name of the Yankee navigator with the trade winds and the monsoons." And Van Wyck Brooks praised old Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's book on puerperal fever by saying that it had probably saved as many human lives as Bowditch's book...