Word: cholerae
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...sensation. (The young doctor in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith was a phage researcher.) More than 50 different phages were found, and some of them were photographed by ultraviolet light in ultra-microscopes, revealing diameters of two to 90-billionths of a metre. They were tried out as cures for cholera, dysentery, blood poisoning, boils and other diseases, but on the whole proved disappointing. Some bacteria seemed to acquire an immunity to their phages. Some phages worked well in test tubes, failed in human bodies. Thus phage does not cut a major figure in the therapy of bacterial diseases today...
When he heard of gold on the Pacific Coast he started for California as a matter of course, arriving with a wagon train after combating cholera, dysentery, Indians, grizzly bears, treacherous rivers, hunger, thirst. He panned a few ounces of gold but gave it up to become a sailor, trapper, steamboat ticket speculator. In San Francisco he studied law, became a prominent citizen, headed the forces opposed to the Vigilantes, met and disliked William Tecumseh ("War is Hell'') Sherman who was then simply a California banker and commander of the California militia. In the Civil War, Wistar...
...main foci of the epidemic as in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Hoihow, Macao. Amoy and Foochow were being scrutinized closely. The League of Nations has established a central observation post in Singapore, and last week the League's observers reported that refugees from the coast were spreading cholera inland. At the League of Nations' Geneva headquarters last week, its watchful Health Committee warned: "Repercussions which might become serious internationally as well as nationally are to be expected if the [war] disturbances cause a breakdown in the quarantine services and thus lead to the transmission of plague infection...
...protection of the U. S.. Surgeon General Parran of the Public Health Service comfortably announced: "It is not believed by Public Health Service quarantine officers that the west coast seaports of the United States are likely to become infected, for the reason that, since the incubation period of cholera is only five days, outbreaks on shipboard will occur and the disease will become manifest long before a ship from infected ports could reach any United States seaport. However, the possibility of introduction of the disease by carrier is not being overlooked, and bacteriological search is being conducted for carriers...
...prelates reported that Father Richard had once served a jail term. Before the Vatican discovered that the jailing had been for an unpaid judgment for slander, won by a man whom Father Richard had excommunicated for deserting his wife and remarrying another, Father Richard died in a cholera epidemic of 1832. He left a library of 3,000 volumes, then probably the Midwest's largest, and a number of letters for which his current biographers have hunted in vain...