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Writer Calder pulled no punches. Said he: "The lice and flea population is multiplying and that is alarming doctors. . . . Doctors are concerned about the risks of cerebrospinal meningitis, the dreaded spotted fever. ... It has been epidemic for a year, although for obvious reasons little public attention has been drawn to it. Indeed in one week the figure was the highest in the records of British public health...
...during the '30s by skipping from country to country each year, contrasting the opulence at the beginning of the decade with the poverty of the later years, the comfort of the democracies with the misery of the dictatorships, the peace and indifference of the haves with the militant fever of the havenots. The film takes no chances on letting the audience forget the fact that the irresistible note of doom runs through every shot of men marching, men striking, men fighting...
...appointed to the Medical School faculty in 1938. Formerly he was Field Director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Medical Director of the Division of Communicable Diseases at Herman Kiefer Hospital, Detroit. He is well known as an investigator of the treatment of scarlet fever, diphtheria, erysipelas, meningitis, poliomyelitis, respiratory infections and other diseases. One of his studies for the Rockefeller Foundation was a four-year field research on scarlet fever in Rumania, an investigation in which bacteriologists in many European countries cooperated...
...became paralyzed, and his brain, when given to mice, killed them. But when the mouse brain, containing the powerful "murine" (mouse) virus, was given to a monkey, nothing happened. And when the monkey was given a stiff dose of the original deadly virus, shortly afterward, he developed a fever, but did not become paralyzed. Seven out of ten monkeys were thus immunized with murine virus...
burn in a fever forever, an incense pierced...