Word: cholera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preparing for his Korean trip in a manner painfully familiar to all ex-servicemen, General Dwight D. Eisenhower last week rolled up his sleeves for six "booster" shots-yellow fever, cholera, smallpox, typhus, typhoid and tetanus. Though this is a process which virtually guarantees the victim two sore arms and a fever, Ike showed no visible signs of discomfort as he bustled through a busy week of conferences, callers and ceremonies...
...Said Prague's official Communist organ, Rude Pravo: "The accused are creatures who long ago lost the right to be called men. When looking at them, one is reminded of the pictures from Korea of the spiders, bugs and rats carrying with them the plague, typhoid and cholera...
...insults over mishandling of P.W.s. To cloud the air further, Peking and Moscow burst out with ludicrous charges that the U.N. forces were busily dropping germ-infected insects, cotton wads and leaflets behind Communist lines. It was a typical Red attempt to explain away a reported outbreak of typhus, cholera and bubonic plague among their armies...
Quick, the Needle! Said a village elder: "Before these doctors came, we depended on three brothers belonging to the barber caste. For all types of intestinal and stomach ailments, they prescribed a strong decoction of black pepper. Cholera victims were given opium. Sometimes they recovered, more often they died. The wives of the barbers acted as midwives. To keep out evil spirits, we sealed all the windows where a woman was confined, plugged her ears with cotton and locked the door. Now the blue bus doctors say there should be maximum ventilation. We follow them because we find their methods...
...priest; in Philadelphia. Born the fourth child of an Irish immigrant coal miner, he spent 13 scholarly years on the faculty of Philadelphia's St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, in 1903 became Bishop of Nueva Segovia in the Philippines. There he dealt with rebels and lepers, dug graves for cholera victims, paddled his canoe along jungle streams (the diocese could not afford a paddler), and led the Roman Catholic theological struggle against the "Independent Philippine Church," founded by Gregorio Aglipay, who had been a Roman Catholic priest in Manila. Dougherty became Archbishop of Philadelphia in 1918, was created a cardinal...