Word: cholera
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges. It owns a fine site on Mt. Lycabettus, presented by the Greek government; has in process of erection a commodious and solid building to cost twenty thousand dollars; posesses a library of between fifteen hundred and two thousand volumes; is free from debt, and has an established reputation. Cholera closed the Levant to travellers for one of these years; but no less than eighteen students have been in regular attendance and scores of travellers have enjoyed its advantages. received counsel in their sight-seeing, and disseminated its influences among their friends. The regular students are now instructors and investigators...
...Farnham's eleventh lecture was delivered last evening. The lecturer said that consumption attacked some races more than others. The Irish and Germans were particularly subject to its unconquerable power. All people are aroused when cholera or small-pox is prevalent, and yet they take but few precautions against the greater evil of consumption. Alcohol, syphilis, want of pure air and good food are all productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep...
Thanking Mrs. Obrien for her courtesy, the reporter withdrew, and picked his way out of the alley, pondering deeply on the hard fate of goodies in general, and Mrs. Obrien in particular, and mentally noting, in his odorous surrounding's, some excellent material for an essay on "The Cholera Fiend," illustrated a la the Boston Herald...
...promises to be an unusually exciting affair. The Yale eight, with the exception of the coxswain, are now in the hospital with malarious fever, but their physician thinks that they may be able to row on the appointed day. The Harvard stroke and bow had each an attack of cholera yesterday, and are still very low. Nos. 2, 3, and 6 are believed to be suffering from severe hemorrhages from the lungs, and the three remaining oarsmen are slowly recovering from typhoid fever. It will thus be seen that, on the whole, the two crews are in better physical condition...