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Many Phi Beta Kappas suffer from hay fever. This fact did not escape the notice of Dr. Buenaventura Jimenez Serra of the University of Michigan health service. He began to match records of students' allergies with the results of their entrance examinations. Last week Dr. Jimenez, just in time for the hay fever season, broadcast a consoling item. Allergy, said he, is a symptom of intelligence. On college achievement tests, he found, students suffering from hay fever, asthma and eczema rate five to ten percent higher than their non-allergic fellows...
Almost 50 years ago, in a tiny hill town of Ohio's Belmont County, young Dr. Frederick Archimedes Korell was confronted with a medical puzzler: a strange new children's disease. Its symptoms: swollen glands, high fever, sore throat, coughing, abdominal pains. He was fresh from medical school and he had never heard of the disease. He treated the symptoms separately, and the children all recovered...
...seen 96 cases of "glandular fever," so he wrote a paper describing the new disease, presented it before the county medical society. His elders scoffed at him, said he was making a great fuss over ordinary "biliousness," or influenza...
...barbershop one day Dr. Korell fell to talking with Professor Charles William Pavey of Ohio State Medical School. He mentioned his experience with glandular fever. Dr. Pavey recognized the disease as infectious mononucleosis, described in 1886 by the Russian Nils Feodorovich Filatov, in 1889 by the German Richard Pfeiffer. Dr. Korell was the first...
...followed by Drs. Elmer William Rebbeck of Pittsburgh and Henry Alfred Barrett of Manhattan. Last year, after they told him of several thousand successful cases, Dr. George Miley of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital began to put in full time on irradiation, working up case histories, preparing careful fever charts, blood-count tables...