Word: cholera
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...fall, a blow, a scare, a rage, a chill, writes Dr. Taussig, may cause spontaneous abortion. Spontaneous abortions may also result from defective ova, weakness of the placenta, nervous wombs, malformed pelvis, dietary deficiencies, endocrine disturbances. Half the women who suffer from typhoid fever, cholera, scarlet fever, smallpox, erysipelas, sleeping sickness and malaria during pregnancy involuntarily abort. Pneumonia is especially feticidal...
...belief. Marie Thèrèse Wang's biographer, Rev. Basil Stegmann of the Benedictine Order, lists eight cases which the Roman Catholic Church may or may not judge to be miracles supporting the Rose of China's candidacy for beatification. Among them: two cures (tuberculosis, cholera) ; one happy death; one escape from brigands; an instance in which someone received payment of an old debt...
Uncounted thousands of the quick and the dead still lay last week in the ruins of Quetta in British Baluchistan, smeared by earthquake last fortnight (TIME, June 10). Against the menace of fire, flood, jackals, looters and cholera, a British division surrounded the town and dug frantically in the ruins. But when a rumor spread that the British planned to dynamite and abandon Quetta, natives set up a mighty howl, pointed out that in other earthquakes men had been dug out alive as long as a week afterward...
...were buried deep in the ruins, many alive. But Death had not finished looking for them. First came the sniffing jackals and pariah dogs. Then fire broke out, burning some. Finally water poured out of the cracked earth, drowning others. From the fast-rotting bodies of the dead, cholera germs fanned out across Quetta. Then the earth began to rock once more, settling the ruins deeper, and a landslide rolled down the nearby Mountain of Death. In this fantastic register of disaster, a Pathan raid failed to materialize at once only because the earthquake had shaken their hill villages...
...during Depression it has paid at least 70% of all expenses out of the proceeds of its farm. Dr. House's son Charles, who was born & bred in the Balkans, went to Princeton (Class of 1909) and speaks seven languages, is today the active director of the school. Cholera wiped $1,500 worth of prize hogs from the school's books in 1932. But Dr. House is proud of the fact that his school was the first to introduce to Greece the gambusia minnow which devours mosquito larvae. These fish have already nearly wiped malaria from the Salonika...