Word: cholera
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Only 55 years ago great, meticulous Louis Pasteur (1822-95) began to realize that for every infectious disease there is a specific microorganism. That year chicken cholera was Pasteur's obsession. Dishes of the virus lay all around his Pans laboratory. Then, in the midst of his research he dashed away on a vacation. The virus died, but Pasteur did not know that...
Upon his return Pasteur injected some of the dead virus into a healthy chicken. Nothing happened. Astonished, he prepared a fresh batch of virulent virus and injected it into the same chicken. Nothing happened-because the erroneous mnoculation with dead virus had immunized the chicken against cholera...
...Zinsser does not agree with them. According to his thesis, the disease developed among wild rats in the Orient, did not reach Europe as a human epidemic until the 15th Century. In the five subsequent centuries. Professor Zinsser calculates that typhus has caused more death and misery than cholera, bubonic plague, leprosy, tuberculosis, or any other human pestilence. Therefore he rates this mass disease as Plague No. 1, born in filth and spread by vermin...
...hall table lies a polo helmet. From these two facts he knows that his Katrin (Greta Garbo) is sinning with a cool young legation attaché (George Brent). At dinner that night, Dr. Fane presents Katrin with a choice: she will leave with him for Mei-tan-fu, where cholera is epidemic, or she will marry the attach...
...Katrin has time to think about her misdemeanors. While Dr. Fane is busy treating cholera-stricken natives, she sits at home, listening to the babble of her Chinese maid who calls her "Missy" and a cockney resident named Waddington (Forrester Harvey). By the time the doctor has relented so far as to offer to send Katrin back to Hongkong, she has decided to stay in Mei-tan-fu as a nurse. Dr. Fane is wounded in a riot and at the same time the attaché arrives in Mei-tan-fu to see how Katrin is making out. She gives...