Word: typhoid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common Nazi practice of simply segregating communities in which epidemics broke out and leaving the inhabitants to die had resulted in entire villages being wiped out by typhoid fever...
...most dreaded scourge, pestilence, yet appeared. Germany claimed that influenza raged in London, that millions of rats swarmed the centre of the city. But the colds that came from sleeping underground were not influenza, and the rats had been there always. Most feared epidemic was typhoid, from water contamination after bombing of water mains and reservoirs, but the germination period of typhoid is almost two weeks, and London had been steadily bombed for only nine days at week...
...Medicine," as the blurb sings, "has taken R. S. to the four corners of the earth": to Serbia (typhoid epidemic), France (World War I), Russia (famine and cholera), Mexico, China. In Serbia he met a Bishop who entertained himself each morning by taking shots at an old rabbit on the hillside. He wouldn't let R. S. shoot; he was afraid R. S. might hit the rabbit. On the boat to Mexico he made friends with Hart Crane, "a generous, warmhearted person, obviously drinking hard because of intense unhappiness." R. S. loved liquor, France, poetry, music, ribald talk...
...more effective than ordinary gauze packs. "In many instances," he continued, "salt pork promptly stopped bleeding after other methods had failed. ... It seems to have the property of preventing recurrence. ... I have used it in controlling violent hemorrhage occurring with the onset of measles, rheumatic fever, and typhoid fever, and during the third stage of labor...
Last week Drs. William Saphir and Katharine Myrta Howell of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital had good news for Sally and the estimated 15,000 other U. S. typhoid carriers. They announced, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "surprising success" in purging a carrier so that she stayed purged...