Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smallpox, plague, yellow fever, cholera and typhus are prevalent in various parts of the world. Ships, immigrants, animals (especially rats) may bring the pests into the U. S. Dr. Cumming's small brigade of doctors, dentists, sanitarians, pharmacists, nurses and specialists inspected 21,631 ships, more than 2,000,000 passengers, more than 2,000,000 seamen at domestic, insular and foreign ports. Result: only seven cases of smallpox, one of leprosy and two of typhus reached U. S. quarantine...
Persons traveling to Siam, Cochin-China, China, and Iraq must still beware cholera; along West Africa yellow fever; in backward Europe typhus; everywhere smallpox...
...Book is one of the most valuable activities of the first year in College. The volume constitutes an enduring record of the class at a time when the sense of solidarity is strongest, and is deserving of the thoughtful care that sometimes is lost in the fever of editorial politics...
...Francis, officer of the U. S. Public Health Service, caught the disease while studying its microorganism, Micrococcus melitensis. It is the second febrile disease he has contracted in the public health service. The other was rabbit fever, which hunters, butchers and furriers are apt to catch from infected rabbits (TIME, June 18 & Nov. 26). Academically, rabbit fever is termed tularemia, after Tulare County, Calif., where in 1910 it was first identified. Doctors, however, prefer to call it Francis Disease, in honor of Dr. Francis, who isolated the germ (Bacterium tularense) to his own harm, malaise and inconvenience...
...Ewes, asses, horses, mules, cows and monkeys are also susceptible to Malta fever...