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Disease, His (health)


Named for the Swiss physician Wilhelm His, Jr. (who also described the bundle of His in the heart), this is a louse-borne disease first recognized in the trenches of World War I and so was called trench fever. Urban trench fever occurs among the homeless people and people with alcoholism today. The cause of trench fever is Bartonella quintana (also called Rochalimaea quintana), an unusual rickettsial organism that multiplies in the gut of the body louse. Transmission of the rickettsia to people can occur by rubbing infected louse feces into abraded (scuffed) skin or into the conjunctivae (whites of the eyes). The disease is classically a 5-day fever. The onset of symptoms is sudden with high fever, severe headache, back pain and leg pain and a fleeting rash. Recovery takes a month or more. Relapses are common.





dinkum (iou)



dinkum noun, adjective, & adverb. L19.
[Origin unkn.]
A. noun.
(Hard) work; one's due share of a task. dial. (formerly also Austral. colloq.). L19.
R. Boldrewood It took us an hour's hard dinkum to get near the peak.
= dinkum oil below. Austral. & NZ colloq. E20.
(Dinkum) An Australian or New Zealander, esp. one who fought in the war of 1914-18. Austral. & NZ colloq. Only in E20.
b. adjective & adverb. In full fair dinkum (also square dinkum, straight dinkum). Genuine(ly), authentic(ally); honest(ly), straightforward(ly); interrog. really? you aren't having me on? Austral. & NZ colloq. L19.
dinkum oil the honest truth, reliable information.
Weekly Dispatch Real dinkum Australians..knew..that wombats can't fly. N. Marsh Give you a pain in the neck, dinkum, she would. F. Clune The Simpson Desert..is the only fair-dinkum desert in Australia. A. Wright It's like a story out of a book..but it's dinkum.