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...previous incarnation, in which he was "a Yogi amidst the Himalayan snows." Crying spells and "prayerful surges" welled up in the precocious little nipper when he realized that he was no more than a mewling suckling. At the age of eight, he was struck down by Asiatic cholera. He was at death's door when his mother gestured frantically toward a photograph of her favorite yogi, and screamed to her son: "Bow to him mentally [and] your life will be spared!" "I gazed at his photograph," Yogananda recalls, "and saw there a blinding light. . . . My nausea and other uncontrollable...
...Interisland shipping has been slowly reconstructed, although beef from southernmost Mindanao is still being flown to Manila because of the lack of refrigerator ships. A thousand surplus tractors have helped boost carabao-geared farm production; the Filipinos are now nearly self-sufficient in food. There is no threat of cholera, which daily kills scores in Bangkok ; no plague, which continually ravishes part of China. Three million children, compared to a prewar two million, are back in school. Driving through Mindanao, I was amazed at the number of schools. Communal problems there are small. Said one Mohammedan datu (chieftain...
China needs at least 200,000 doctors, and has fewer than 12,000-one doctor for every 37,500 people (the U.S. has one for 1,200). Ravaged by tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, kala azar (a deadly parasitic disease), typhus, plague, venereal disease, China has a death rate estimated at three to four times that ofthe U.S. (In Shanghai, a sixth of the population have T.B.; an eighth,venereal diseases.) Among the nation's major postwar medical problems: 32,000,000 opium addicts...
...China, UNRRA doctors and sanitary engineers helped to contain cholera, bubonic plague, kala azar (black fever, borne by sand flies, which were attacked with...
...Hiroshige shaved his head, became a Buddhist novice. But he kept on traveling and making prints of the sights of Japan (Thirty-Six Views of Fuji, etc.). Eleven years later, mortally sick with cholera, the master wrote a cheerful poem to celebrate his departure to the Buddhist Heaven...