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...Garcia Marquez, 60, * offers a spacious mirror image of the novel that made him famous. This time out, surface events largely conform to the dictates of plausibility. No one ascends bodily into heaven; the famous plague of insomnia that swept through Solitude here becomes literal, recurrent ravages of cholera morbus. The bizarre and outlandish are relegated to the domain of private lives, to characters who must construct for themselves elaborate fictions to follow in order to stand the shocks and tedium of being alive...
Like much of the U.S. population at the turn of the century. Theodore Roosevelt suffered periodically from what was unhandily called cholera morbus−an acute inflammation of the digestive tract, with diarrhea, cramps and vomiting. He took "cholera" medicine with him on his hunting trips to Wyoming's Big Horns. But it was not until after T.R. became President that the prime cause of cholera morbus became known: spoiled food...
...that Jackson ever had tuberculosis, as some biographers have thought. What fooled them, she concludes, was his bronchitis, malarial fever, and a lung abscess caused by the bullet. But he had almost everything else: bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes), stomach, kidney and eye trouble; in later years, "cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery elm (still used in lozenges for sore throat). He kept the arm, but later developed osteomyelitis (stubborn infection...
...whose legions of fanatic peasants finally captured Morazán after 18 turbulent years of early federation was an illiterate swineherd named Rafael Carrera. He later became known as "General Cholera Morbus," because he claimed that those opposing him spawned a cholera plague by poisoning wells. His support came from ignorant Indians, reactionary churchmen and landowners, minor despots and foreign governments stirring up trouble as a normal accompaniment to 19th-Century colonial policy...
SYPHILIS SIVE MORBUS HUMANUS- Charles S. Butler, M. D., Rear Admiral (M.C.) S. Navy-Science Press (Lancaster...