Word: typhoid
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...smoothed-down pillow was tuberculosis, typhoid, and other diseases brought to New Zealand by the white man. In the next 25 years, disease reduced the Maoris almost to extinction. In 1881 Dr. Alfred K. Newman, another member of Parliament, wrote: "Taking all things into consideration, the disappearance of the race is scarcely a subject for regret. They are dying out in a quick, easy way, and are being supplanted by a superior race...
Policemen and vigilant police dogs. Meager rations of warm food were ladled out from 3,500 field kitchens. Many of the demonstrators looked undernourished and tired. Many were sick; several typhoid cases were reported. Yet most of them thoroughly enjoyed the outing...
Natural Law. In South Dakota he was once called to a farmhouse where the father of five children had died while convalescing from typhoid. To the widow's tearful question, "Why did God take my husband?", Harkness made the stock answer: it was the will of God to which all must submit. But on the drive back to town, the doctor turned to the minister to ask: "Why did you tell her that nonsense about the will of God? Against my strict orders she gave her husband a meal of fried pork, and it killed him." Then, says Harkness...
...people. Biggest addition: the Hindu refugees from Eastern Pakistan, who last week were still crowding in. Five thousand Hindus were camped in Calcutta's Sealdah railroad station, ragged, stupefied and sick. In spite of efforts of relief workers there were 70 new cases of cholera, typhoid and dysentery every day. A volunteer made the rounds taking down depositions from refugees. One emaciated little man dictated haltingly: "My name is Harun Donath Pal. I lived in the village of Subhodpur. My house has been burned and my two sisters and my aunt are lost. My property has been looted...
...test tube and in laboratory animals, terramycin kills heavy growths of bacteria which cause one of the commonest forms of pneumonia, streptococcal infections, typhoid fever, and many intestinal and urinary tract infections. These are the disease germs against which antibiotics already in use are most effective. So if terramycin shows up well in the tests, now beginning, on humans, it will give doctors an extra weapon of a familiar type, rather than a basically...