Word: typhus
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...University of Rochester Medical School last week elected Alice Catherine Evans of Washington president. She did not attend the meetings, for she was bedridden in Washington with malta fever, contracted three years ago while experimenting with the germs. They cause an undulating fever, quite similar to typhoid or typhus fever. Goats usually are responsible for malta fever in humans. Professionally Miss Evans is a member of the U. S. Public Health Service at Washington...
Moroccan nobles uttered passionate but unavailing prayers, last week, as a typhus epidemic spreading from the Arab slums of Fez entered at last the cool and sumptuous palace of the Sultan Mulai Yusef, where such luxuries as fountains, tinkling behind screens of marble fretwork, lull the inhabitants into a disregard of occasional vermin potentially laden with typhus bacilli...
Hadj Ahmed-el-Mokri, son of the Sultan's Grand Wazir (Prime Minister), was stricken with typhus among the first and lay in a dying condition throughout the week. For any member of the potent Mokri family to be thus stricken would have caused a sensation throughout Morocco, but the general anxiety was made acute by the fact that Ahmed was the favorite nephew of famed and beloved "Mokri the Blind," for years the incorruptible and discerning examiner of all maidens put forward by their families or tribes as candidates for the Sultan's harem...
...when choosing an additional wife. Europeans, while deploring the tendency of "Mokri the Blind" to examine candidates in silence?thereby precluding any investigation of their intellectual powers?nevertheless have honored him as one of the least corrupt of high Moroccan officials. Late despatches reported that no Occidentals had contracted typhus...
...Where is a horrible scourge of typhus sweeping...