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Last week the 1939 attack of U. S. foot ball fever reached its crisis with many a delirious game...
...Capone, freed after seven years and six months in California's Alcatraz and Terminal Island Prisons, was whisked across the continent by Federal Agents to Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital in order to be given malaria. Object: a fever cure of his paresis under the care of Dr. Joseph E. Moore, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine instructor in syphilology...
Uric acid retained in the bloodstream is likely to form chalky, stony deposits in the joints and in the cartilage of the ears. Frequently first to suffer is the joint of the big toe, then ankles, knees, hands and wrists. Common symptoms: cramps, inflammation, fever, headache, neuralgia, together with hot, itching feet (known to ancients as "the lisping of the gout...
True deafness can be caused only by injury to the inner ear, or to the auditory nerve. Inherited structural defects account for a large proportion of these cases; syphilis, scarlet fever, meningitis, measles, for many others. Skull fractures and the force of violent explosions may injure the cochlea or the auditory nerve...
Only unusual case in Still man this year is David C. Jones '40 who contracted a case of paratyphoid fever this summer. Although in the infirmary for the last three weeks, he is now well on the road to recovery...