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Lethargic encephalitis has not the slightest connection with African sleeping sickness (Trypanosomiasis). The name is more appropriate to the former disease than to the latter. Sleep symptoms are not invariably characteristic of the African sickness, but they occur whenever the parasite localizes in the fluid of the spinal cord or in the brain. Since they are conspicuous when present, the disease got its popular name from them. Sleep is a marked and invariable symptom of encephalitis, ranging from a light slumber to a profound coma...
...found that the elephant had an inflammation of the bowels, but the actual cause of death was a wasting of the body resulting from degeneration of the adrenal glands, a condition called Addison's disease, after the British physician who first described it. One of the prominent symptoms is a bronzing of the skin, but the proverbial thickness of the elephant's hide had prevented this symptom from becoming apparent. The heart of the elephant weighed 75 pounds, and its main blood vessels were like steampipes. It was apparently only 95 years old. It's life having...
...quite possible, though perhaps hardly charitable, to suppose that had the Columbia committee not retained vivid recollections of the Butler incident. Its letter might never have seen the light; but even so, whatever the cause, the fact that such an appeal has appeared is distinctly an encouraging symptom...
...college is so small and unusual athletic ability so concentrated that many of the best football men are occupied with other interests in the spring. We prefer to rest our case, however, on the broader argument. Football is overemphasized; intercollegiate athletics are hypertrified; spring football is merely a minor symptom of the larger disease. It is one of those things without which we could so easily...
Political diagnosticians regard the Senator's misfortune as an evil symptom for the third party movement. No other insurgent has equal vim, vigor, vitality. No other has as great a following. Regular Republicans, kneeling by their beds before blowing out the evening candle, murmur: "And may Fighting Bob recover, but let third parties perish in miserable confusion. Amen...