Word: cholerae
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...never go. As a commuter between continents, Rimanelli chose an apt title for his book from a text that he attributes to an 18th century merchant: "These people of the South have upon them the mark of original sin, a curse of Satanas. Whence poverty, invasions, the Bourbons, Jesuits, cholera and all the ills that afflict the spirit and the flesh. And then you ask me: Why do they leave? Are they not content here? I tell you: No. And no government-as distinguished from Christ -can ever redeem them...
Maugham wrote his bestseller during the era of the not-quite-emancipated woman-a time when literary convention prescribed, as the natural consequence of adultery, a cholera epidemic. In The Seventh Sin the epidemic is caused by an American girl (Eleanor Parker) married to a British bacteriologist (Bill Travers) but carrying on with a French business man (Jean Pierre Aumont) in Hong Kong. When her husband finds out, he (of course) packs her off posthaste to the nearest outbreak of cholera. Her character immediately begins to improve. The local white trash (George Sanders) philosophically assures her that Schnapps...
Unfortunately, she is not referring to the plot, which continues. Actress Parker goes to a convent, where she acquires Wisdom: "One cannot find peace in the world or in a convent, but only in oneself." Rather than swallow such bromides, the husband dies of cholera, and, as the widow sails away into the sunset, she remarks: "I'm beginning to like myself." It is hard...
...Eastern and Asian travellers, for example, should consult the Health Service about the necessity for typhus and cholera shots. Visitors to South America, Africa, and other tropical areas may have to be innoculated against yellow fever...
...tetanus, typhoid, and smallpox innoculations are offered without charge by the Health Service, as part of the student medical plan. The service will administer typhus and cholera shots, but students much purchase the vaccine for these. Yellow fever shots are handled only by U.S. Public Health Service hospitals...