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Scurvy, scrofula and scabies were common among the poor. Bathing was rare: one Quaker lady noted in her diary in 1799 that she withstood a shower bath "better than I expected, not having been wett all over at once, for 28 years past." Body lice were omnipresent, as was the disease they carried-typhus fever. Frequent births and poor obstetrics accounted for the high mortality in mothers; the death rate among black women served by midwives was lower than among whites served by physicians. Mental illness was seen as the work of the devil: the village idiot was either derided...
...Eave Two-Man and Eave Three-Man. Rounded on top like Conestoga wagons, these tents take two minutes to erect and have withstood winds up to 80 m.p.h. No center pole or ropes are needed, and the tent breathes through a porous cloth roof protected by a waterproof "fly" that overhangs it like an eave. The three-person version weighs 6 lbs. and costs...
While the Republicans were willing to accept a quirky non-pol, Democratic voters chose the competent if bland alternative. They renominated Incumbent John Tunney, 41, who withstood a rough challenge from Tom Hayden, once the kind of radical youth leader warred upon by Hayakawa...
With John Havlicek, Paul Silas and Jo Jo White leading the way, the Celts withstood a furious Cleveland comeback in the third quarter and doused the Cavaliers, 111-99, in the opener of their Eastern Conference playoff final...
Physical Capital. Franco, whose chief doctor put the odds against his survival at 100 to 1, withstood the operation well and seemed to show signs of recovery. But by mid-week he sustained yet another series of setbacks. Phlebitis, a vein inflammation that almost killed him last year, developed in his left thigh. Then in a reaction to the various physical breakdowns in his system, Franco's kidneys failed, and toxins began building up in his blood...