Word: trachoma
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...career. He serves as health officer and sole civilian doctor for the island's 20,000 natives. His head quarters are two thatch-roofed hospitals where he and a dozen nurses, locally-trained, treat the usual spate of tropical diseases and Guam's chief scourges, tuberculosis and trachoma (an eye infection...
These desperate homegoers will return to many villages that have been destroyed and towns that have been razed or are filled with strangers. They will bring with them orphans, old and insane folk. They will bring scurvy, trachoma, malaria, typhus, and dysentery from eating grass and earth. Starvation may be so prevalent that the cannibalism of 1919 may again strike eastern Europe. Railroads that should carry these desperate people will be totally disorganized; horses may all have been eaten. No reserves of fuel and clothing will be on hand; no state authorities will exist to guide them. China, Japan, Malaya...
...Neuwirth is also using the egg-culture method in an attempt to produce the world's first vaccine against trachoma, an infectious eye disease common throughout the Middle East; and he is trying to develop a bacteriophage ("bacteria-eater") solution to treat those already afflicted. Last month the Iranian Government gave Dr. Neuwirth its first scientific decoration...
Japanese Protestants insist that their church is far from being on the defensive. Their best-known leader and one of their spokesmen at Riverside, trachoma-cured Toyohiko Kagawa, last year headed an aggressive Nation-wide Evangelistic Movement which statistically did much better than its American counterpart, the National Christian Mission (TIME, April 14). In 247 meetings it. drew 86,485 people (one person for every three Japanese Protestants, compared to the Mission's one for every 18 in the U.S. Protestant constituency) and made 1,868 converts (adding nearly 1% to Japan's Protestant church rolls, compared...
Japan is sending its No. 1 churchman, Bishop Yoshimune Abe, and its No. 1 Christian, trachoma-cured Toyohiko Kagawa, to a peace parley with U.S. church leaders at Riverside, Calif, next week. Its purpose as stated by the Japanese: "Prayer and to explore ways to preserve peace between Japan and the United States...