Word: cholerae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
WITHIN THESE WALLS?Rupert Hughes?Harper ($2.00) Another stab at the Great American Novel. Another history of the adventures and misadventures of an American family from 1832, when New York was in the grip of the black cholera, to times fairly contemporaneous. But the RoBards had even more than the usual fictional American family's share of trouble. Jealousy, murder, seductions, secret marriages?they took a fling at them all, but always managed to keep up appearances pretty well, on the whole. There is much interesting information on the growth and development of New York City and its water-system?...
...child rations speaks for itself. But apart from supplying food, it has provided medicine and surgery in just as notable proportions. Fifteen thousand hospitals have been kept in equipment, and the doctors of the unit are leaving behind them enough supplies to last for six months. Typhus and cholera, two of Russia's great plagues, have been almost stamped out, and trachoma, a third, has been placed largely under control. This last work is reminiscent of the magnificent fight against yellow fever waged by Walter Reed in Cuba and by General Gorgas in the Panama Caual Zone, and goes...