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...stern as Bernarr Macfadden on the subject of physical condition, rejected 80% of its candidates for enlistment. With war in two oceans on its hands, the Navy has become more tolerant. Henceforth it will accept (and try to recondition) men with varicocele, hydrocele, deformed noses, hernia, hay fever...
...GENESEE FEVER-Carl Carmer -Farrar & Rinehart...
...vaccine made from the herpes virus (allied to the fever blister and shingles virus) helps to prevent severe nervous degeneration if given over a period of several months. Dr. Neal has tried the vaccine on many patients, with apparently good result...
Best thing about Genesee Fever is the wealth of Carmer's authentic, affectionately painted regional period detail. He makes such dusty props as oiled-paper windows, Conestoga wagons and Liberty Poles as fresh as a glimpse at the youth of one's greatgrandparents; makes a succulent novelty of such frontier diet as pickerel, wild turkey, the bright yellow Indian corn...
...Although rheumatic heart disease is very common, the fever which accompanies this malady in the U.S. is rarely seen in North China. Another strange fact: the symptoms of high blood pressure very often occur in Chinese whose blood pressure is, by U.S. standards, very...