Word: ophthalmia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...money. All they owned was fishing equipment. All they ate was cod, bread, tea, wild berries. They were plagued with tuberculosis, scurvy, anemia, beriberi. They had never seen a doctor, and they treated their sick with charms: sugar blown into babies' eyes to cure them of ophthalmia, haddock fin bones to ward off rheumatism, burned nail parings to drive away sea boils. A scratch with a fish hook often meant infection and the loss of a limb...