Word: malaria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...east of us was Lawrence with his Arabs. In the ditches as we marched past lay hundreds of Londoners and Indians of the 60th Division, some with their legs in the road and their heads in the ditch, twisted into ghastly contortions, utterly exhausted, racked with malaria and dysentery. With us marched our comrades of Allenby's Desert Mounted Corps, the many regiments of Australian Light Horse, regiments of lean gaunt men from whose lives pestilence had exacted more than wounds and trench warfare...
...when Harvard college was founded as a small theological school it was settled a good distance from the Charles river. It was not a purely haphazard chance that caused the college to build the embryonic Yard with its back to the river for the malaria infested swamps were something to be avoided in the days before modern hygienic conditions...
...promote the development of medical knowledge by aiding schools of medicine, nursing and hygiene in various parts of the world (including 18 medical schools in 14 countries) and to promote public health by helping governments fight certain diseases (yellow fever in Brazil and West Africa, hookworm in 21 countries, malaria in the U. S. and elsewhere...
...value of the Illinois experiment lies in the fact that therapeutic rat bite fever is easier to cure than malaria, which has a similar good effect on paretics...
...first meeting, which was soon after the war, we were faced with outbreaks of malaria all over Europe. Another problem lay in the sleeping sickness prevalent in Africa. Following the treaty settlements England, France, and Belgium agreed on a uniform and cooperative treatment of this difficulty. The Committee has rendered extensive assistance in Esthonia, Lithuania, Czeckoslovakia, Poland, and "Greece: and is now receiving many re quests from South America, particularly to help stamp out leprosy...