Word: cholera
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...laughed unpleasantly. He made an offer: if she would bring him written assurance from Townsend that he would marry her, written assurance from Mrs. Townsend that she would divorce Charles, he would do as she asked. Otherwise he would require her to accompany him to Mei-tan-fu, a cholera-stricken town of which he was taking charge...
...inscrutable, saturnine heroism of her husband began to move her, if not to love, at least to admiration. He took cholera. She knelt beside his contorted body, begging forgiveness. His lips opened. She bent to hear his last words. "The dog it was that died," he said in a blackening whisper...
...Frankfurter sausage containing a little powdered glass, a few cholera germs...
...Frankfurter sausage containing a little powdered glass and a few cholera germs was the appetizing dish said to have been planned for Hugo Stinnes by the so-called German Cheka-but Stinnes' death (TIME, April 21) foiled the Red plot. In Paris, it was persistently declared that the "King of Coke" had committed suicide. For the first time since the French occupation of the Ruhr, President Ebert is to visit the occupied area. The occasion is the Cologne Industrial Fair. Herr Penfick of the National Liberal League and Professor Meyer, "another politician," have testy tempers. Penfick attacked Meyer...
Almost 20 years ago Professor Robert Koch, discoverer of cholera and tuberculosis germs, made a trip to Africa to study sleeping sickness. He was then 64 years old. Parts of his diary have just been published, with notes. Dr. Koch did not find a remedy, but the hardships of his trips and his modesty in recording them are a monument to his devotion to the medical profession...