context1: Prior to abandoning Bowling Green, Governor Johnson requested that Richard Hawes come to the city and help with the administration of the government, but Hawes was delayed due to a bout with typhoid <strong>fever</strong>. Following Johnson's death, the provisional government elected Hawes, who was still recovering from his <strong>illness</strong>, as governor. Following his recovery, Hawes joined the government in Corinth, Mississippi, and took the oath of office on May 31.
context2: Dr. Reese developed a particular interest in neurosyphilis, which, in the 1920s and 1930s, accounted for >10% of all psychiatric <strong>illnesses</strong>. In the days before effective antibiotic therapy of that disease, somewhat unconventional treatments were utilized. One of them involved the purposeful infection of patients with malarial organisms, with the goal of creating a <strong>fever</strong>.