Word: cholera
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...Viet Nam's townsfolk and peasantry have always been prey to tuberculosis, malaria, cholera and plague. Now they need modern doctoring, particularly orthopedic surgery, even more urgently, because they are frequent victims of Viet Cong shot and shell. The medical mercy mission was proposed by President Johnson early last year, and Dr. William B. Walsh, the persuasive head of the People-to-People Health Foundation (which sponsors the hospital ship Hope), agreed to run a pilot program...
...would come down the mountain a piece and board with a godly, breech-clouted native, and eat poi and dirt and give thanks to whom all thanks belong, for those privileges, and never housekeep any more." Yet, aside from a tantalizing shipboard glimpse of a Honolulu quarantined by cholera in 1895, he never found his way back...
...drastic reduction in recent years in the death rate from cholera has resulted mainly from the method that Dr. Phillips' team has devised to maintain the victims' balance of fluids and those all-important electrolytes, the salts of sodium and potassium. But even that Battle is not yet won. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Craig K. Wallace told the International Congress of Pediatrics in Tokyo hat the death rate is almost seven times as high among children under nine as among adults, because their fluid loss is proportionately greater...
...Cholera in 1965 is a far more complex problem than medical men expected it to be. And with El Tor taking over, the oldest plague is becoming one the newest...
Plasma to Gut. At the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 ("Namru-2") in Taipei, Dr. Robert Allan Phillips, the world's most famed cholera fighter, has pursued his interest in the disease since 1955. An important development was his theory that the diarrhea results from a disturbance of what doctors call "the sodium pump." Normally, Dr. Phillips explains, sodium salts and other electrolytes pass in both directions from the inside of the bowel into the blood plasma, and vice versa; and in healthy people the movement is greater from the gut to the plasma. In cholera, the proportions...