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...American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. Pratt double-checked his story with Chinese officials. Two days later the New York Times printed virtually the same story from its Chungking correspondent, Harrison Forman. In both accounts the essential facts were the same, were vouched for by Dr. Robert Lim, head of the Chinese Red Cross...
Supplies are sometimes a long time coming, in China. Last month Dr. Lim received equipment and materials for a vaccine plant which the American Bureau had sent a year ago. Dr. Lim now plans to pasture a herd of ponies for serums, manufacture 200,000 doses a day of vaccine for typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and tetanus toxoid...
...Order in Asia. Although he and the Red Cross are constantly on the move, Dr. Lim takes lengthy clinical notes on diseases of the army. Samples...
...Nutritional diseases are widespread. "The lack of protein," says Dr. Lim, "is particularly important. . . . Healing of wounds is slow and infections of all kinds are frequent in the undernourished soldier. The lack of fat ... is responsible for the frequency of hemeralopia [blindness under bright lights]." Beriberi, a disease caused by vitamin B deficiency, is common in Southern China, where the main food is polished rice...
...Pneumonia and tuberculosis can be overcome, says Dr. Lim, only if troops are provided with adequate clothing and food. "One of the most serious of venereal diseases is gonorrheal ophthalmia [inflammation of the eyes]" due to lack of water, neglect of elementary personal hygiene (and vitamin A deficiency...