Word: typhoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then [continued the Attorney General's letter] in precisely the same situation as my wife and I were in just a year earlier when whiskey was prescribed in the cases of three or four children who were near death from typhoid fever and pneumonia. Of one of them it may be said with certainty that he could not have recovered without the use of this medicine...
Relief. The Red Cross, on a $10,000,000 flood fund "drive," had by last week raised $8,500,000. More than 100,000 refugees had been vaccinated; disease outbreaks were confined to some 25 cases of typhoid and a few of dysentery. Countless boats and 48 Army and Navy planes have been employed in rescue work...
...midstream lest the wash endanger a levee. The Red Cross quickly collected a $5,000,000 relief fund, began a drive for $5,000,000 more. Pestilence and curtailed water supply threatened crowded refugee camps. Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas asked the Red Cross for enough smallpox and typhoid vaccine to inoculate 25,000 persons. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas suggested a special session of Congress to provide funds for relief work; President Coolidge decided that the emergency would be over before Congress could assemble and make appropriations. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi invited the President to visit...
...menaces, the greatest was pestilence. Typhoid broke out. Measles, scarlet fever and dysentery threatened. Weakened by their drenching, the refugees succumbed easily...
...earnest of the tribulations soon to beset promoters of the Congress came last week, when Lieutenant Colonel James Porter Fiske of Post No. 1 American Legion gave out an interview: "Legionnaires and their families who come to the Convention should all be inoculated for typhoid before leaving the U. S. . . . Even so they should drink only bottled mineral water in Paris. ... To guard against ptomaine poisoning they should be extremely careful to eat only selected food...