Word: malariae
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...expectancy at birth was 34.5 years for men and 36.5 years for women. Fifty percent of deaths occurred in those under ten years of age. Infectious diseases decimated the population. Smallpox and yellow fever were most feared. Tuberculosis, cholera and dysentery, typhoid, diphtheria, measles and mumps were ever present. Malaria was as common in New England as on the Southern plantations. In 1721, almost half the population of Boston caught smallpox, and more than 7% died. Yellow fever wiped out 10% of the population of Philadelphia...
...prevent serious cases of smallpox-condemned the use by Boston physicians of "Leaden Bullets," to be swallowed for "that miserable Distemper which they called the Twisting of the Guts." By the early 18th century, there were only two drugs known to be specific: cinchona bark for malaria, and mercury as an antisyphilitic agent. Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia (one of four physicians to sign the Declaration of Independence) used bloodletting so extensively that even his colleagues marveled at the survival of his patients. Thomas Jefferson said in 1807, "The patient ... sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine...
...politics and providence have not been kind to these runners. Although Bayi (pronounced Bye-ee) and Walker have been scheduled to compete against each other numerous times during the past two years, the combination of malaria (Bayi's), aching Achilles' tendons (Walker's) and governments (both Bayi's and Walker's) has kept them from meeting outdoors in the 1,500 or the mile since June 1974. Again last Friday, just when their long-awaited encounter seemed certain, misfortune intervened, this time in the form of the announcement that Tanzania was withdrawing its athletes from...
Miller's rounds in the major tourneys over his career bear close resemblance to the fever chart of a malaria victim. In his U.S. Open victory he parlayed a disastrous third round 76 into a closing rush for 63, the lowest round to hit the books in either the British or U.S. championships...
...spraying of mosquito breeding areas slashed the incidence of malaria in Italy and other Mediterranean lands and made inroads against the disease on the Indian subcontinent...