Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decade of 400,000 in the number of Southern-born Negroes living in the North. The best authorities estimate that 250,000 went North in 1915-16. It was a great silent movement, without leadership, or even self-consciousness, which caught at the South like an infectious fever and sucked whole communities away by the nearest railroad. Everyone thought it a war incident that could hot be repeated...
...ancient peoples of the New World. It is thought to have begun about the first century before Christ, reaching its zenith from 400-600 A. D., and to have flourished at intervals until about 1400 A. D. The Spaniards found these sites depopulated. Epidemics of yellow fever and other tropical diseases are believed to have caused the decline and fall of this great people...
...probable conquest of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a peculiar disease, the microbe of which is transmitted by the wood tick, and which is practically confined to Montana, Idaho and other northwestern states, is forecast by the discovery of a protective vaccine against the disease by Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, the distinguished Japanese pathologist of the Rockefeller Institute, who, in collaboration with Dr. Simeon B. Wolbaeh, of Harvard Medical School, has been studying the fever at Hamilton, Montana, for several months. Nine Japanese of Missoula voluntarily submitted to injections of the vaccine, although warned that its effects might be serious...
...particular application is still in the experimental stage, although several New York specialists are using similar methods. The current is applied through two electric plates, one fitted to the back and one to the chest. The current flows directly through the lungs without burning the skin or causing dangerous fever elsewhere in the body, and is believed to raise the temperature within the lungs themselves to about 115 degrees. The effect is to reduce the congestion, just as gelatin is melted. After a few treatments the heavy breathing subsides and the lungs are able to absorb more oxygen. Twenty-minute...
...Evelyn fooled them all with a little hot water bag hidden under her arm. But Dr. Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association, Chicago, watched through a keyhole. "Hysterical malingering" is his diagnosis. The girl is still sick, and the excitement of the expose may do what a simulated fever could not. But the physiologists are vindicated! The human body still obeys its accustomed laws...