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...ground, tried to run on their sides, collapsed on the turf. In Massachusetts alone 200 horses died, victims of equine encephalomyelitis. Entirely different are the eastern and western varieties of this disease, although both are caused by viruses which attack the brain and spinal cord, produce inflammation, high fever, and in some localities 100% mortality. Last spring Dr. Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff of Lederle Laboratories at Pearl River, N.Y. and Dr. Joseph Willis Beard of Duke University prepared vaccines from chicken embryos which conferred immunity against both types of the disease, and this summer as many as 50,000 doses...
...among children on farms in southwestern Massachusetts. Encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, is ordinarily not widespread in the U. S. Its last large epidemic occurred in St. Louis in 1933. Cause of the disease is a virus of which little is known. Its most prominent symptoms are high fever, headache, delirium, restlessness or lethargy, double-vision, paralysis or involuntary jerking of fingers, arms, legs. Unpredictable are its after-effects which may include "parkinsonian mask," (complete absence of facial expression), insanity, sexual perversion, tremors and tics of all types...
Some 3,000,000 people in the U. S. who hobble around with stiff, aching joints are waiting for an arthritis cure. Doctors have tried warm baths, short-wave treatment, artificial fever therapy and vaccination, but have achieved few cures. Arthritis has over 65 variations and doctors cannot agree on any one cause. Certain it is that there is an arthritis type: a tired, nervous, constipated individual easily susceptible to colds and infections who may develop a full-fledged arthritis after a streptococcus infection, or a series of slight injuries to some organ...
Most heroic of modern therapeutic measures is artificial fever treatment. If a patient with gonorrhea, St. Vitus' dance or atrophic arthritis is willing to lie snugly in a hot box or expose himself to short-wave radiation for periods varying from two to ten hours, sometimes several times a week, while his temperature is pushed up seven or eight degrees, he stands a good chance of recovery. Whether the intense heat kills the germs, or stimulates the body to produce germicidal substances doctors do not know. Only ill effect of intense heat was delirium, now prevented by copious draughts...
...increased intelligence and lost tails of the irradiated group other than the fact that radiation stimulates circulation of the blood, sends more fresh blood through the brain and body. Whether increased intelligence might be obtained in humans he did not dare conjecture. Only mental result of artificial fever noticed so far is that the patient's outstanding personality characteristics are exaggerated after treatment...