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Branding showers as "unclean, unsanitary, and unhealthful," Rost claims that he had tried the swimming pool, and even a dip in the cool crystal-clear waters of the Charles as a substitute for an old-fashioned bath, but was satisfied with neither. "Just bring on those Mount Holyoke girls," Rost boasted...
...sets up one God, one Prophet; Hinduism worships a great pantheon of gods. Hindus worship images, and fill their temples with ikons, which offend Moslems deeply. Their mosques must depend on color, material, texture for their beauty, and all decoration is pure geometry. To the Moslem a pig is unclean, and by throwing in a slice of bacon, a Hindu can defile a whole mosque; but a Moslem eats and sacrifices cows, which are sacred to Hindus. Hinduism is passive ; Mohammedanism is proselytizing - which perhaps accounts for the fact that in most Moslem-Hindu clashes, Moslems usually seem...
...obliged to strip, scrub and dress in lice-free clothes. Only by such drastic means could Army doctors be sure of preventing the transmission to the U. S. of the louse-carried disease of typhus. And once typhus appears among dirty human beings huddled together in unclean army camps, trenches, jails, poorhouses, hospitals or ships, they die by thousands. Typhus, more than cold or Russians, made Napoleon retreat from Russia in 1812. In 1914 typhus killed 150,000 Serbs and 30,000 of their Austrian prisoners. The plague spread to Russia, where it infected 25,000,000, killed...
...Turney tells the story, the priest Calchas (Harry Irvine) is clamoring for a ''holy war" to rescue divine Helen from Troy, but the gods will not let Troyward winds blow until the unclean house of Atreus is purged by sacrifice. Iphigenia, daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, is lured to Aulis in the belief that she is to wed Achilles, and Calchas there prepares to sacrifice her. Mad with grief when Agamemnon refuses to interfere, Clytemnestra blasphemes the gods, calls Helen a whore, vows vengeance upon her husband. When Agamemnon returns from Troy after 1,007 days...
...peculiar transmission were referred to in the Second Commandment: For I the Lord Thy God ama jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. The Greeks, in a dim, foggy way, described ailments contracted by unclean intercourse. The Romans were among the first to develop a sense of shame in connection with venereal diseases and said as little about them as possible.* As the Dark Ages settled down on Europe, syphilis was lumped with leprosy and other skin troubles, was given no special recognition...