Word: cholerae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manteno. Others will have to wait at least a year until the treatments are ready for the market. Meanwhile, the two researchers are back in their laboratories, hoping to prove that their treatments will knock out other epidemic diseases such as cholera and dysentery...
...Korea was an Underwood-Presbyterian Horace Grant Underwood, of the typewriter family. He went out to the Orient in 1885, married a medical missionary who became royal physician to Korea's Queen Min. In his buttoned-up black coat and white tie, doughty Dr. Underwood strode coolly through cholera epidemics and equally formidable Korean political squabbles. He raised his son, Horace Horton Underwood, to labor in the same vineyard...
...bitter disappointment in California; other thousands died without ever getting there. Those who chose the long trip around Cape Horn (best time: 89 days) risked storms and shipwreck; on the land-and-water route via the Isthmus of Panama (33 to 35 days), the perils included yellow fever and cholera. By the Overland and Santa Fe Trails, over which 50,000 traveled in 1849 alone, the trip could take all spring and all summer-and the gold seeker, plodding onward beyond the alkali desert in the Humboldt Valley, thought himself lucky to get across the Sierras* before the first snows...
...bacon, 30 Ibs. of sugar, 6 Ibs. of coffee. He tells what the emigrants talked about, what songs they sang, their feasts and prayer meetings, the condition of the road and the weather, the imagined hazards (Indians and Mormons) and the real ones-fleas, whiskey, mules' hind legs, cholera, poisoned water. Fear, worry, loneliness and monotony took a toll, too. A man suddenly began to run in circles, declaring that Providence had decreed that he was to be buried in that circle (he was soundly trussed up and placed in a wagon). A woman suddenly began to set fire...
...doubtful that Jackson ever had tuberculosis, as some biographers have thought. What fooled them, she concludes, was his bronchitis, malarial fever, and a lung abscess caused by the bullet. But he had almost everything else: bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes), stomach, kidney and eye trouble; in later years, "cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery elm (still used in lozenges for sore throat). He kept the arm, but later developed osteomyelitis (stubborn infection...