Word: cholerae
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...Thoburn went to India, was joined by his sister Isabella (1840-1901) who founded Lucknow Women's College (India's first for females), held her first class of seven while a sturdy boy with a club guarded against intruders. Long afraid of street cars, she died of cholera...
Little though it was known outside of Asia. China was rancid with cholera this summer, a pestilential menace to the rest of the globe. By last week, as cold weather crept over the country, the trouble was subsiding. Remembered then was the prediction of Dr. J. H. Jordan. British Commissioner of Public Health of the Shanghai International Settlement, that the disease, which is always skulking in China, would be especially virulent this year. Some 500,000 Chinese contracted the disease, some 150,000 died (Dr. Jordan's estimate). Last July Dr. Robert Watson Hart, chief of the American Oriental...
...pretty sight are those dying or dead from cholera. The disease, like typhoid, attacks the bowels, causes stupendous loss of body fluids. The whole body becomes covered with dank moisture. Cheeks become hollow, noses pinched, eyes sunk, voices husky. Death's rigor sets in quickly. Muscles become literally hard as wood. Sometimes a stiffening corpse jerks about, may kick out a foot, wave an arm. flap its jaws, roll its eyes...
...cultivate germs, when in 1884 Dr. Smith -who was then only 25, and the late Dr. Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850-1914) who was then 34-proposed creating immunity against disease with products of the bacteria which caused the disease. With this idea they immunized pigeons against hog cholera. Their method rationalized the whole subject of vaccination. It promptly led to the invention of diphtheria antitoxin...
Here the novel breaks off, the diary becomes agitated; Stanislaw has heard Marusia is still alive, still remembers him. Frantically he wires, sends messages, money. The little son he has never seen is brought to him. Marusia has died of cholera on the trip. Stanislaw and his wife patch up the pieces, go on again from...