Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cholera, furiously fatal intestinal disease, is as old as populated India; and until 1817 never left the home grounds. In that year it spread East; with the increase of travel in later years it spread West, invading the Americas in 1826 and 1873. The great pandemic of 1879 to 1883 threw a scare into the civilized world, sent scientists to microscope and test tube, sent Robert Koch* into Egypt from which he emerged with the Vibrio cholerae, cause of all the trouble. Work on the troublesome organism has not ceased since that time. During the last epidemic the British Government...
With characteristic biologic modesty, the cholera bacteriophage had been at work long before it was discovered and named. There have always been cholera patients who recovered spontaneously; many a village in India has remained free from cholera while the epidemic raged around it. These patients had an abundance of bacteriophages in the intestines, probably because the village drinking water had been accidentally contaminated by the bacteriophages. Dr. d'Herelle systematized these coincidences. He prepared cultures of the bacteriophage from the stools of convalescent patients, transferred 30 to 40 cubic centimetres of the culture to every well in the district...
Surendria Datta, of the National Christian Council of India, asserted that Christianity and the entire Anglo-Saxon system is now an integral part of his country, and would remain there even if British rule were removed...
...Hogg. Someone must always be Lord High Chancellor, but to have chosen a new one fit to rank "among the greatest," last week, would probably have meant returning to the Woolsack the brilliant Earl of Birkenhead, who sat thereon during 1919-22, but is now Secretary of State for India. Patently Lord Birkenhead does not want to impair his chances of perhaps someday becoming Prime Minister by again withdrawing from the hot arena of politics to the lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call to the Lord...
...Gordon brothers, British soldiers, who entered the army on the same day, became full generals on the same day, received the K. C. B. at about the same time, who were authorities on the customs and conditions of India, where they were stationed and where they were famed as the "Gemini Generals...