Word: cholerae
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Quick, the Needle! Said a village elder: "Before these doctors came, we depended on three brothers belonging to the barber caste. For all types of intestinal and stomach ailments, they prescribed a strong decoction of black pepper. Cholera victims were given opium. Sometimes they recovered, more often they died. The wives of the barbers acted as midwives. To keep out evil spirits, we sealed all the windows where a woman was confined, plugged her ears with cotton and locked the door. Now the blue bus doctors say there should be maximum ventilation. We follow them because we find their methods...
...priest; in Philadelphia. Born the fourth child of an Irish immigrant coal miner, he spent 13 scholarly years on the faculty of Philadelphia's St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, in 1903 became Bishop of Nueva Segovia in the Philippines. There he dealt with rebels and lepers, dug graves for cholera victims, paddled his canoe along jungle streams (the diocese could not afford a paddler), and led the Roman Catholic theological struggle against the "Independent Philippine Church," founded by Gregorio Aglipay, who had been a Roman Catholic priest in Manila. Dougherty became Archbishop of Philadelphia in 1918, was created a cardinal...
Hatch spent 18 years in Martandam. The villagers soon nicknamed him "Double-Your-Money" Hatch. They learned to breed the best poultry in India, instead of the semi-wild jungle fowl that laid an egg every two weeks. They learned to build roads, how to control malaria and cholera, weave baskets, rugs and rope. Instead of their sticky, grimy jaggery (unrefined sugar candy), Hatch taught them to make clean palmyra sugar to be sold at double the price of jaggery. He introduced scientific beekeeping, revived the art of kuftgari (working designs on iron and silver). At the same time...
...laborers were brought into Illinois from the East and from Europe. The crews brawled incessantly because of the "numerous groggeries along the line." They were plagued by cholera. But finally, on Jan. 8, 1855, the first through passenger train from Cairo reached Chicago, its coaches lit by dim whale-oil lamps. Along its right of way, flourishing villages sprang up. Soon the Central linked up with Mississippi steamboats, opened trade to the Gulf...
...story was not quite enough for Calcutta-born John Masters, 36, a wartime brigadier with Wingate in Burma, who has tackled the subject in a first novel. Faithfully following a popular formula (the book is a Literary Guild choice), Masters has lugged in such sideshows as tiger hunts, cholera epidemics and sweaty sessions between Hero Savage and a nubile native queen. ("Her bare thighs were warm, and her hands were on him...'I did wrong...but go on, go on. I love you.' ") Rodney Savage is a man of good will...