Word: septic
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Just why New Yorkers have failed to recognize this place of satire on fanatic reform as such is a mystery. With one exception they seem to have been taken in. The sole septic states with utmost gravity that he cannot and the address, of "Mr. Fillmore's" society in the directory. In all other cases this modern Dean Swin is denounced to the high heavens. In one case a fervid Manhattanite, evidently having the recent elections a bit heavy on his mind, seems to dread that "Mr. Fillmore", intends to enter politics on the platform of "The coffee-house must...
...Public Health Service. It is caused by the Bacterium tularense, which is transmitted to man by the bite of the blood-sucking fly, bedbug and similar insects from infected rabbits, squirrels and rodents. The disease is seldom fatal to humans, but is accompanied by pains, septic fever lasting from three days to six weeks, prostration, swollen and suppurating lymph glands, and ulcers on the site of the bite, followed by several months of convalescence when the patient is unable to work. It is found in rural populations in harvest time. It has been mildly epidemic in Utah for five years...