Word: cholerae
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Died. Dr. Ida S. Scudder, 90, third-generation American medical missionary of the Reformed Church in America, who dedicated her life to the fight against plague, cholera and leprosy, and who in 1918 started in Vellore, India what is today one of Asia's foremost clinic-medical schools, with current support coming from more than 40 missions;* of a circulatory ailment; in Kodaikanal, India...
...carts, bicycles and on foot, the old and infirm often carried on younger men's backs. The crowd found one-way traffic patterns, with 200 mounted police and 3,000 other lathi-wielding cops to enforce them. On every road there were medical teams to inoculate them against cholera (though many needle-shy peasants managed to slip past). The festival area itself was sectioned off like the Chicago stockyards with bamboo fencing to keep crowds from clotting. Posted in special watchtowers, police tirelessly kept track of the human mass with binoculars and blared directions through 300 loudspeakers...
...logistical planning, Hagerty left nothing to chance. Correspondents got a series of detailed memos advising just what shots to get (cholera, typhus, yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid and tetanus), how much luggage was allowed (66 lbs. in one piece), what to pack (three or four bars of soap, enough clean underwear to last until New Delhi, black tie for state occasions en route). Hagerty, who took a dry-run tour of the route in November, even thoughtfully published information on the availability of American cigarettes along the way ($5 a carton in Karachi, none to be had in New Delhi...
...life, but he was, on July 10, 1834. The boy's father, a West Point engineer, shortly obliged him with a surrogate birthplace (St. Petersburg) by accepting Czar Nicholas I's commission to build a Moscow-to-St. Petersburg railroad. When the elder Whistler died in a cholera epidemic, James was old enough to enter West Point. In a chemistry exam, Cadet Whistler identified silicon as a gas, and West Point decided to do without him. "If silicon had been a gas," Whistler used to say, "I would have been a major-general...
Dramatic Success. Namru-2 scored one of its most striking successes in fighting cholera outbreaks in East Pakistan and Thailand. Drugs are of little value against the disease, which kills mainly by causing a tremendous loss of body fluids; in the acute diarrhea stage, as much as four gallons may be lost in a single day. Measuring the victim's need for fluids and body salts usually requires costly and complex electronic gadgets, but Namru-2 medics adapted an inexpensive Rockefeller Institute technique, found that they could learn what they needed by putting a few drops of blood into...