Word: cholera
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...Government doctor in the little village of Al Korein, north of Cairo, reported some patients with vomiting, cramps and diarrhea. Four days later, ancient, crowded Egypt knew that it had an outbreak of Asiatic choler, the first since 1902, when cholera swept all Egypt, killing 34,595 people (mortality: 85%). Eventually the 1902 outbreak reached Europe and America...
Stabbed by Pygmies. Dr. Paul R. Hawley, a major general in World War II, now medical chief of the Veterans Administration, arrives at the question: "Did cholera defeat Custer?" By psychoanalytical deduction, Hawley concludes that Custer's Last Stand can definitely be traced to a cholera epidemic at Fort Riley on the Kansas River in 1867, nine years before the battle...
Custer's wife was then at Fort Riley. When Custer, leading an Indian-hunting expedition in the field, heard of the cholera outbreak, he promptly rode off from his cavalry regiment and hastened to the fort. That led to a court-martial and thorough humiliation of the high-strung young officer. His trial brought out other charges. He had once abandoned a detachment of his troops to annihilation by Indians (an unpardonable sin in the Army's Indian-fighting code). Custer was sentenced to loss of rank and pay for one year. Dr. Hawley's analysis...
...Cholera. 4. Smallpox...
...psychiatrists themselves had more solemn problems on their minds. Their profession, they thought, was facing a task even graver than its job in wartime. Said famed Psychoanalyst William C. Menninger, the new A.P.A. president-elect: "No longer is the world cursed with smallpox or cholera or yellow fever. . . . We have learned to eliminate space and to annihilate people, but we still lag far behind in learning how to get along with each other. . . . Is there any hope that medicine, through its Cinderella, psychiatry, can step forward to offer its therapeutic effort to a world full of unhappiness and maladjustment...