Word: cholerae
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Meanwhile, Chapman had decided to become a doctor. In London he treated diabetes, paralysis, epilepsy, cholera with hot & cold water bags. Later he moved to Paris, continued to edit the Westminster Review. In 1894 he died, is buried near George Eliot. He had been molding advanced British opinion for 43 years...
...Medicine," as the blurb sings, "has taken R. S. to the four corners of the earth": to Serbia (typhoid epidemic), France (World War I), Russia (famine and cholera), Mexico, China. In Serbia he met a Bishop who entertained himself each morning by taking shots at an old rabbit on the hillside. He wouldn't let R. S. shoot; he was afraid R. S. might hit the rabbit. On the boat to Mexico he made friends with Hart Crane, "a generous, warmhearted person, obviously drinking hard because of intense unhappiness." R. S. loved liquor, France, poetry, music, ribald talk...
Others were quick to follow his lead. Last week Drs. Salman A. Waksman and H. Boyd Woodruff reported discovery of agents from soil which kill "gram-negative" (red-staining) germs-such as those of typhoid fever, dysentery and cholera. But scientists are going ahead cautiously. The protective value of both "gram-positive" and "gram-negative" destroyers has yet to be tried on human beings...
Today British and French doctors expect no epidemics of typhus, typhoid or cholera. Although there is no effective remedy for any of these diseases, all can be prevented by sanitary precautions. British soldiers are given inoculations against smallpox, tetanus, typhoid. But a titanic task faces the doctors of Germany and Central Europe...
Emerson; there was an optimist! Famine, discase, suffering, and the greatest disaster of all, could not shake his serene faith that a benevolent power was behind all evils. Did cholera ravage a city? A cure would be found. Were ships lost at sea? Better ones would be built. Did men fight? A better social order would come...