Word: fever
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According to their stories, they sickened on rotten food. In crude bunks they lay for days, some of them stricken with fever. Six died. Many slept in lifeboats (left) rather than endure the stinking hold. One physician said that it was a "miracle" no epidemic broke out. They nicknamed their ship the Nevermore...
Some of you will try to run too fast and feel in too many fields; some will stick too close to their stables and break down with "grind" fever. Neither way is too healthy, it's part o' yore job to find a balance. Pussonally we've allus felt it was better to get broken to the traces the fust half-year--the old Lazy H harness can be purty tough on colts, no matter how full of prep they are--and leave the horsin' 'till you've larned to drag yore load. Then you can start browsin' 'round...
...rushed from her sanatorium to the Spanish steamship Monte Albertia in Buenos Aires harbor. The sisters of the sanatorium tipped off Buenos Aires newsmen. Theiraccounts of the case stirred up local lawyers, who got the ship's surgeon to examine Mariquita. He testified that she had a high fever, might not survive the voyage. For this he was arrested by the Spanish captain and thrown in the brig...
...five-year-old boy lay in bed burning with fever, his right groin swollen. Suspecting that this was no ordinary disease, his doctor took a sample of fluid from the swollen gland, started home to examine it. But near the house he saw something that confirmed his terrible suspicions: a batch of dead squirrels...
...young and he made a drunken safari with Big Boy which lasted only as long as the liquor. He killed one lion, with extreme lack of pleasure. The beaters howled and threatened until they were given candy. Back in the hotel lobby "dying men, full of fever and Scotch, [sat] reading the stale London Times...