Word: typhoidal
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...foot. They trudged along the cavernous bed of the Han River, threaded dense forests, climbed by foot trails aver precipitous cliffs of the Tsingling Mountains. Chinese military authorities supplied them with food: rice, a few vegetables, hard wheat cakes. Three of them, a professor and two students-died of typhoid. But on the tenth day, after a 180-mile journey, they reached their destination, Hanchung. There and in nearby Chengku they started new universities...
Mary Mallon, a peripatetic cook, was a famed typhoid carrier, i.e., she was a walking factory of typhoid germs, to which she herself was immune. It was known that Typhoid Mary gave the disease to 57 people before she was finally caught and confined to New York City's North Brother Island, where she died in November 1938. Last week Health News, bulletin of the New York State Health Department, reported a successor to Typhoid Mary. "Like Mary Mallon, Sally is a cook by trade." At the age of 23 she had an attack of typhoid fever...
Best-known method for curing typhoid carriers is cholecystectomy, or removal of the gall bladder, chief breeding ground for the bacilli. But such drastic operations are sometimes unsuccessful...
...outstanding army medical research worker throughout the Spanish-American War, General Russell introduced the U. S. Army to the use of anti-typhoid vaccine. He invented the Russell double-sugar medium for cultivation of typhoid bacilli, there by permitting the isolation of the baccilli for study...
Others were quick to follow his lead. Last week Drs. Salman A. Waksman and H. Boyd Woodruff reported discovery of agents from soil which kill "gram-negative" (red-staining) germs-such as those of typhoid fever, dysentery and cholera. But scientists are going ahead cautiously. The protective value of both "gram-positive" and "gram-negative" destroyers has yet to be tried on human beings...