Word: trachoma
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...Flagstaff, she became the first to win a new $2,000 annual scholarship for Indian girls at New York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College. Florence wanted to become a doctor, so that she could go back to the reservation to help cure her people of tuberculosis and trachoma. Last week Florence was home again, without getting to New York. She had tasted white man's poison along...
They exchanged some grim statistics: the height and weight of traditionally healthy Finnish children are 10% to 15% below prewar average; the average weight of Yugoslav children is down 24%. In Italy alone, 2,000,000 children need extra rations, 220,000 have eye-destroying trachoma. Only 30% of Austria's children can be considered healthy; in Poland, 30% of the children under seven have rickets; 90% of Rumanian children have bad teeth. Tuberculosis, hunger's fellow traveler, is up everywhere: 1% of Europe's children have active tuberculosis, two-thirds of them are tuberculin positives. Among...
Hygienic investigations have been conducted along with the treatments, which reveal a heavy incidence of trachoma, dysentery, and conjunctivitis. At first, a student report admits, the peasantry were very suspicious of the investigators, but after a few cures were accomplished their confidence...
...blind violinist in the corner cafe could see with his finger tips which of two identical bow ties Arturo was wearing-the red or the blue. The little boys from the orphanage "all had lice and an eye-sickness called trachoma, which looked as though their eyelids had been smeared with sausage meat." The winding alleys-Street of the Union, Street of the Clock-were lit at night, white and black, by the polished moon of Castile and by gas jets, weak flames shaped like slices of melon. In summer he saw the savage boredom of village life in Brunete...
...Veils, No Skirts. In 1925, when A.U.B. introduced coeducation to the Lebanon, it did much to liberate Near Eastern women. Today unveiled Moslem girls mingle with men on the Mediterranean-edged campus, play tennis in shorts. Beirut's 1,000 graduate doctors now battle trachoma, typhus, malaria throughout the Near East. With 42 nationalities and 30 religious sects among its 2,463 students, A.U.B. is a "perpetual peace conference...