Word: beriberi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steaming Philippine jungle, John Linehan spent three years dodging Japanese soldiers' bullets and harassing the enemy. The Japanese never hurt him, but the jungle did. Suffering beriberi, malaria and enteritis, he lost 80 Ibs. By the time a U.S. sub evacuated Linehan, he had to be carried aboard...
...airmen already do, except in some overseas areas or when butter surpluses are depleted. Dairy-bloc Congressmen lead a successful fight to keep intact a Navy Ration Act put through by Theodore Roosevelt to provide bluejackets with 1 6/10 ounces of "butter" a day, to prevent scurvy and beriberi...
...operations (including countless Caesareans) with a death rate of only 2.4% despite the primitive operating conditions and the shortage of plasma. With the nurses, they gave 721,370 medical treatments. Besides antimalarial and anti-TB drugs, they passed out truckloads of sulfas, and B 1 pills to guard against beriberi. They fought the threat of smallpox, typhoid and cholera epidemics. After the new arrivals' wounds were dressed, the most pressing problems remaining were the results of poor food and worse housing-or the lack of any. Said Brotherhood Chairman Oscar Alrenano, a Manila architect: "The Mekong can flow with...
...about 100,000 "treatments" given by Filipino doctors since they first came to help the Vietnamese last fall. In a country where the French colonials only got around to training 150 Vietnamese doctors, the Filipinos are making headway with insufficient equipment against such diseases as smallpox, malaria and beriberi. Fifty-eight Filipino volunteers-doctors, dentists, nurses and social workers-are doing what they can. "It is an inspiring thing." said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in his address to the U.S. last week, "to see the Philippine people, who only lately achieved their own independence, now turning to help...
...planting. Some 700,000 refugees have moved off to the rice-rich south, leaving for Ho their burned farmhouses and untilled land. An additional 10,000 refugees are fleeing the north every week. Refugees from Red Viet Nam reaching the French-held port city of Haiphong are suffering from beriberi...