Word: cholera
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Twenty-five years ago this array was otherwise. Tuberculosis then was the chief cause of death. But doctors have taught defense against contaminated surroundings. People have learned to guard themselves. So typhoid, yellow and scarlet fevers, diphtheria, cholera and babies' bowel troubles are no longer pandemic and rarely epidemic in civilized countries. People live, on the average, ten years longer now than they...
...skyscraper has already become a plague that we may well range alongside our ancient city scourges of cholera, yellow fever, tuberculosis and slums...
...chicken business that to sell polluted fowls you must first pollute the city inspectors. This seems to have been accomplished by a poultry graft ring during the administration of the widely known onetime Mayor Hylan, at which time there also chanced to be an epidemic of chicken cholera. Last week Mayor Walker and his friends discussed whether or not they could afford to investigate the thing. It was right in their own party and would rejoice the Republicans. The milk graft, too, was scarcely fit to be printed, involving, as it did, almost the entire milk supply of the city...
...with mystification, have watched their colored maids, newly migrated from the South, gather clay from the back yard and then chew it, learned last week from inveterate conners of the Journal of the American Medical Association that pure clay, kaolin, kept in motion with fluids, is beneficial in Asiatic cholera, bacillary dysentery, chronic ulcerative colitis and acute enteritis. In some cases the clay carries away intestinal bacteria, in others mixes with their toxic products. The Journal warns inexact thinkers that many other supposedly beneficial effects of clay-eating are spurious...
Some green corn and peaches eaten in 1877 resulted in cholera morbus. Brigham died, having seen his following of 11,000 (in 1850) reach 120,000. Commercial enterprise had gained him an estate of two millions...