Word: cholera
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...whole commercial cabbage crop made 18,000,000 gallons of sauerkraut; sold for more than $3,500,000.* "Hog mange affects the choicest parts of hogs; hams, shoulders, bacon; forces disastrous price slashing. Farmers' Bulletin 1085 gives full, explicit direction for control and prevention. Statistics on hog cholera discloses an average loss of $30,000,000 a year for 40 years. Immunization of suckling pigs is strongly urged, especially if the swine are pastured in lots with running streams, since these may be a dangerous .source of infection." Chemists and advanced agriculturists met last week at Northwestern University, Evanston...
...Cholera, furiously fatal intestinal disease, is as old as populated India; and until 1817 never left the home grounds. In that year it spread East; with the increase of travel in later years it spread West, invading the Americas in 1826 and 1873. The great pandemic of 1879 to 1883 threw a scare into the civilized world, sent scientists to microscope and test tube, sent Robert Koch* into Egypt from which he emerged with the Vibrio cholerae, cause of all the trouble. Work on the troublesome organism has not ceased since that time. During the last epidemic the British Government...
With characteristic biologic modesty, the cholera bacteriophage had been at work long before it was discovered and named. There have always been cholera patients who recovered spontaneously; many a village in India has remained free from cholera while the epidemic raged around it. These patients had an abundance of bacteriophages in the intestines, probably because the village drinking water had been accidentally contaminated by the bacteriophages. Dr. d'Herelle systematized these coincidences. He prepared cultures of the bacteriophage from the stools of convalescent patients, transferred 30 to 40 cubic centimetres of the culture to every well in the district...
...Cholera strikes suddenly. Intense thirst is followed by acute cramps and collapse about the third day, when most deaths occur. During the collapse the face turns black, the skin becomes dry and hard, the voice fades. Early and extreme rigidity of the corpse is a striking feature of cholera and the origin of much superstition. Frequently the corpse will sit bolt upright on the stretcher as it is being carried to the morgue, or rise on its cot at home...
...Cholera. A severe epidemic of cholera was reported from the region of Nanking, where most of the fighting was centred. Bodies were said to be piled high along the banks of the Yangtze, hundreds of corpses floating down the great river...