Word: fever
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Even the Board of Overseers has succumbed to spring fever this year, for it plans to migrate to William and Mary College, in Williamsburg, Va., for its annual meeting on April 19. This will be the first time that the Board has met outside Cambridge or Boston in over 800 years...
...head as if it were a tiara ; a big black with a lion cub on a leash; an Abyssinian policeman who looks ferocious with leaves stuffed in his nostrils (he just has a cold) ; a leper from the Capuchin colony outside the walls; a crisp Italian officer in a fever of hurry and worry...
...special fever last week were the Italian soldiers stationed in Harar. For the city had become the next British objective...
...wonder drug, sulfanilamide, has cured apparently hopeless streptococcus infections, but it has also caused many a headache, and worse-nausea, dizziness, fever, even mild, temporary forms of insanity. For some patients, sulfanilamide is plain poison...
From Scratch. The Red Cross Corps had to start literally from scratch, for the entire army was infested with lice, and lice carry typhus and relapsing fever. Bamboo delousing stations have been set up all over China. Many hospitals have no sterilizers, so the doctors use clay pots; surgical instruments are beaten out of old knives. Modern operating tables cost at least $200, but Chinese doctors now build useful tables out of bamboo for ten cents. Only the most essential drugs are used, and often surgeons must operate without anesthetics. But they try to practice 1941 medicine. At present they...