Word: cholera
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Although the fear of a cholera infection has practically passed by for this fall, its threatened invasion of our country naturally leads us, as it has led all other communities to regard our facilities for treatment of sick patients. While we may not at present fear any serious trouble, there is always the possibility of infectious diseases and the college ought to have facilities to take care of them. Our resources today for caring for sick patients are far from being adequate and consist merely of a small and badly arranged building on Holmes Field, a building used...
...uniform quarantine law necessary. - (a) Danger national as well as local. (b) Cholera always transported. (c) The spread of cholera difficult to prevent. (d) Shown by legislation...
...colleges. It owns a fine site on Mt. Lycabettus, presented by the Greek government; has in process of erection a commodious and solid building to cost twenty thousand dollars; posesses a library of between fifteen hundred and two thousand volumes; is free from debt, and has an established reputation. Cholera closed the Levant to travellers for one of these years; but no less than eighteen students have been in regular attendance and scores of travellers have enjoyed its advantages. received counsel in their sight-seeing, and disseminated its influences among their friends. The regular students are now instructors and investigators...
...Farnham's eleventh lecture was delivered last evening. The lecturer said that consumption attacked some races more than others. The Irish and Germans were particularly subject to its unconquerable power. All people are aroused when cholera or small-pox is prevalent, and yet they take but few precautions against the greater evil of consumption. Alcohol, syphilis, want of pure air and good food are all productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep...
Thanking Mrs. Obrien for her courtesy, the reporter withdrew, and picked his way out of the alley, pondering deeply on the hard fate of goodies in general, and Mrs. Obrien in particular, and mentally noting, in his odorous surrounding's, some excellent material for an essay on "The Cholera Fiend," illustrated a la the Boston Herald...