Word: typhoidal
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...that it was worth it. For human beings contract Bang's disease by drinking the milk of infected cows or goats. In human beings the disease is called undulant fever (brucellosis); it is seldom fatal but highly uncomfortable. The symptoms sometimes resemble tuberculosis', malaria's, sometimes typhoid...
...next four years Kohn was shipped up and down the whole continent of Asia, where he got a taste of Russian prison camps from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. His Russian captors gave him surprising liberties, which included catching malaria and typhoid fever with only the help of a broken down Czech dentist to pull him through. For two years after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was imprisoned in the Siberian cities of Novosibersk and two other unpronounceable locations. Kohn, who just before the war had completed law school in Prague, acquired his first teaching experience in these cities...
Almost half of Latin America's 120,000,000 inhabitants are sick with diseases that are not incurable, but from most of which they will never recover. Smallpox has wiped out entire villages; tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid are always rampant. Hundreds of thousands suffer from exotic and mysterious home-grown ailments. Some, like ainhum or "barefoot leprosy," are lingeringly fatal...
Before he went they inoculated him against tetanus, typhoid, typhus, smallpox, cholera, yellow fever. The nine shots in rapid-fire almost floored...
...military medicine, said Dr. Mackie, began with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. In 1854 that determined British spinster took a handful of nurses to Scutari, cleaned up the filthy, stinking, overcrowded hospitals, organized a system of sanitary supplies, bathed, clothed and fed the thousands of victims of typhoid, cholera, dysentery. Bitterly opposed by hard-bitten generals, she pulled down the hospital death rate from diseases from 315 to 22 per 1,000. After the war, she persuaded the British Government to set up the world's first school of military medicine, organize sanitary rules, military hospitals. Said...