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  • No one had forgotten how in 1885 fouled water had ignited an outbreak of cholera and typhoid that killed ten percent of the city's population.†   (source)
  • Officials were concerned about the spread of E. coli, the risk of typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery.†   (source)
  • At the time of my advent here, we had many Cholera outbreaks, perforating Dysentries, intractable Diarrhoeas, and the whole deadly Typhoid family, which were plaguing the Asylum.†   (source)
  • They were given typhoid shots that first afternoon; they stood in line for them.†   (source)
  • Dead of typhoid fever.†   (source)
  • A few years back, when Haiti had suffered an outbreak of typhoid resistant to the drugs usually used to treat it, Zanmi Lasante had imported an effective but expensive antibiotic, cleaned up the local water supplies, and stopped the outbreak throughout the central plateau.†   (source)
  • The telekinetic, or TK gene, produces female Typhoid Marys capable of destroying almost at will….†   (source)
  • At first it was from the shots they gave us for typhoid, in very heavy doses and in assembly-line fashion: swab, jab, swab, Move along now, swab, jab, swab, Keep it moving.†   (source)
  • Then he developed abdominal pain, and that made him think that he might have typhoid fever, so he gave himself a course of antibiotic pills, but that had no effect on his illness.†   (source)
  • These were the traditional symbols used to counteract the evils brought on by summer—cholera, plague, typhoid, malaria, and typhus.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 1 -- The Typhoid State Revisited.†   (source)
  • Typhoid and paratyphoid A and B?†   (source)
  • "Camp fever" or "putrid fever" were terms used for the highly infectious, deadly scourges of dysentery, typhus, and typhoid fever, the causes of which were unknown or only partially understood.†   (source)
  • You want lockjaw or typhoid or a combination?†   (source)
  • Just for instance, her aunt Beppy — the one they say had the power of levitation — died with typhoid fever.†   (source)
  • I certainly don't want to contract rickets or typhoid fever or whatever it is you catch from drinking contaminated water.†   (source)
  • Then your mother got typhoid.†   (source)
  • Their strongest ally was the stalemate in the Libyan desert, where cholera and typhoid were leveling the Italian expeditionary force.†   (source)
  • A Massachusetts private named Emerson, who had interrupted his studies at Williams College to enlist and was wounded at Fredericksburg and again at Chancellorsville, wrote to his missionary parents in Hawaii from a hospital bed after he had been struck down a third time, by typhoid, that he was anxious to get back to the regiment to help "the holy cause for which I am fighting….†   (source)
  • Everyone knows I'm not Typhoid Mary or anything …. but I still noticed that when I went to the girls' room, no one wanted to use the stall after me.†   (source)
  • There were several signs of sickness, one possible case of typhoid.†   (source)
  • Like typhoid, one can harbor for a lifetime the toxin of guilt.†   (source)
  • I heard constantly of people laid low by typhoid or mortally ill with "blood poisoning."†   (source)
  • I could see a well sweep and thought of moss-covered buckets, cool and wet and reeking of typhoid—well, I had had my booster shots in Heidelberg; I wanted a drink.†   (source)
  • This was the kind of thing that was happening every day in Europe where they had not advanced as iin this country, and watching from her vantage point, Mrs. Shortley had the sudden intuition that the Gobblehooks, like rats with typhoid fleas, could have carried all those murderous ways over the water with them directly to this place.†   (source)
  • I'm not bigger anymore because of the typhoid but I'm older.†   (source)
  • I was afraid to put it to my lips, in case I contracted typhoid.†   (source)
  • Mam runs after him and he tells her I have typhoid fever.†   (source)
  • Bad enough you nearly died of typhoid, now you want to go blind on top of it.†   (source)
  • Dipthteria is never allowed to talk to typhoid and visa versa.†   (source)
  • They say they'd like some too but Mam says go away, ye didn't have the typhoid.†   (source)
  • He had the typhoid last year and then this came.†   (source)
  • Yoo hoo, boy with the typhoid, are you awake?†   (source)
  • The diagnosis was typhoid fever, and she was told to remain perfectly still and try not to speak.†   (source)
  • I STILL DID NOT KNOW WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO SNOW FLOWER and her family during the typhoid outbreak.†   (source)
  • I wished I could of known Grandpa Tweedy's daddy, but he died of the typhoid in 1867.†   (source)
  • You'll see it in the late stages of many kinds of blood poisoning, not just typhoid ….†   (source)
  • Para-typhoid, not the most serious kind, but she had it —and he wouldn't believe her.†   (source)
  • The first case of typhoid struck in the best village in the county—my Tongkou.†   (source)
  • ORDER NO. 2 Two cases of typhoid have been diagnosed in the Sunbury family, upper River Road.†   (source)
  • All I can do about typhoid is warn people, which you have done already and which I will do again.†   (source)
  • Randy was tempted to order a stop to inquire about the children's typhoid.†   (source)
  • If you think things are bad now, wait until we have typhoid in Fort Repose.†   (source)
  • The important thing is the typhoid in the river.†   (source)
  • It was the typhoid that Dan had half-expected and completely dreaded for weeks, months.†   (source)
  • Fujiko sat on the edge of a cot with cramps from the camp food and the typhoid shot gathering to a knot in her stomach.†   (source)
  • On November 17, 1896, he was taken to Mercy Hospital, where he died five days later, apparently of typhoid fever.†   (source)
  • He could see some of Père Lafontant's communal latrines, which had all but eradicated typhoid in this village.†   (source)
  • He reveled in the attention and adored the engraved silver "loving cup" that was filled with wine and held to the lips of every man at the table—despite the prevalence in the city outside of typhoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and pneumonia.†   (source)
  • And when they set up clinics to treat those two diseases, people would come to them with other ailments, with broken legs and machete wounds, with typhoid and bacterial meningitis.†   (source)
  • Then you'll wake up in the morning with diarrhea and vomiting, and the doctor will say you have typhoid or malaria, but in fact the problem will be more complex.†   (source)
  • Since its revolution Cuba had achieved real control over diseases still burgeoning ninety miles away in Haiti, such as dengue fever, typhoid, tuberculosis, AIDS.†   (source)
  • But if the odds are so preposterously stacked against the poor—machetes versus Uzis, donkeys versus tanks, stones versus missiles, or even typhoid versus cancer—then is it responsible, is it wise, to push the poor to claim what is theirs by right?†   (source)
  • He remembered many other patients who had died, along with their lab data, and remembered vividly three young Haitians who had worked with him on the first health census of Cange: Acéphie, picked off by malaria, Michelet by typhoid, Ti-tap Joseph by puerperal sepsis.†   (source)
  • The number of patients fell by half during those years, yet the clinic recorded an annual doubling of injuries from assaults—including four rapes committed by soldiers and attachés—a large increase in typhoid, and twenty-two times more cases of measles than the average before the coup.†   (source)
  • When she leaves he whispers he'll teach me a few songs because singing is good for passing the time when you're by yourself in a typhoid room.†   (source)
  • These would include vaccination programs, protected water supplies and sanitation, and at the heart of the defenses, a cadre of people from the villages trained to administer medicines and give classes on health, to treat minor ailments and recognize the symptoms of grave ones like tb, malaria, typhoid.†   (source)
  • Mam says, I don't know, he's only eleven and he had that typhoid and the coal dust wouldn't be good for his eyes.†   (source)
  • It's the best day of my life, better than my First Communion day, which Grandma ruined, better than my Confirmation day when I had the typhoid.†   (source)
  • Yoo hoo, are you there, typhoid boy?†   (source)
  • Bridey says, He'd be out in the air and there's nothing like fresh air for someone with bad eyes or getting over the typhoid, isn't that right, Frankie?†   (source)
  • I find a penny in the street that first day back at school and I want to run to Kathleen O'Connell's for a big square of Cleeves' toffee but I can't run because my legs are still weak from the typhoid and sometimes I have to hold on to a wall.†   (source)
  • …to her, that she expected me to be a good boy after what God had done for me, after all the prayers said by hundreds of boys at the Confraternity, after all the care from the nuns and nurses of the Fever Hospital, after the way they let my mother and father in to see me, a thing rarely allowed, and this is how I repaid them lying in the bed reciting silly poetry back and forth with Patricia Madigan knowing very well there was a ban on all talk between typhoid and diphtheria.†   (source)
  • I'm taken out of the fifth class and put into Mr. O'Halloran's sixth class with all the boys I know, Paddy Clohessy, Fintan Slattery, The Question Quigley, and when school is over that day I have to go back down to the statue of St. Francis of Assisi to thank him even if my legs are still weak from the typhoid and I have to sit on steps and hold on to walls and I wonder was it something good I said in that composition or something bad.†   (source)
  • It might be the typhoid.†   (source)
  • I have to sit with my eyes closed and everything going brown and black, black and brown and I'm sure I must be having a dream because Lord God above, is that the little fella with the typhoid, little Frankie, the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, is that yourself, Frankie, for wasn't I promoted out of the Fever Hospital, thank God, where there's every class of disease and you never know what germs you might be bringing home to the wife in your clothes and what's up…†   (source)
  • He says, I'm not supposed to be bringing anything from a dipteria room to a typhoid room with all the germs flying around and hiding between the pages and if you ever catch dipteria on top of the typhoid they'll know and I'll lose my good job and be out on the street singing patriotic songs with a tin cup in my hand, which I could easily do because there isn't a song ever written about Ireland's sufferings I don't know and a few songs about the joy of whiskey too.†   (source)
  • …and the nuns and nurses stand and listen and on and on goes Seamus till he comes to the end and everyone goes mad clapping and cheering him and he tells the world he loves that poem he'll have it in his head forever no matter where he goes and if it wasn't for Frankie McCourt and his typhoid there and poor Patricia Madigan with the dipteria that's gone God rest her he'd never know the poem and there I am famous in the eye ward of the City Home Hospital and all because of Seamus.†   (source)
  • Though he hadn't suffered a chill, had had sufficient rest, and was neither wet nor exhausted, he felt, nonetheless, like a typhoid patient.†   (source)
  • She has recovered from a similar state once before, and she may again, but typhoid …. at 74 years of age is enough to create alarm.†   (source)
  • Typhoid fever, also characterized by a raging fever, red rash, vomiting, diarrhea, and excruciating abdominal pain, was caused by the bacillus Salmonella typhosa in contaminated food or water, usually the result of too little separation between sewage and drinking water.†   (source)
  • Lots of folks died of the typhoid.†   (source)
  • Whatever time they had left was taken from them by gas, a bullet, a shell, typhoid, or, if not those, a series of unanswerable questions that would go with them to the grave.†   (source)
  • The musty ammoniacal reek of liver failure came with yellow eyes and in the rainy season; the freshly baked bread scent of typhoid fever was year-round and then the eyes were anxious, porcelain white.†   (source)
  • Its quaint, well-tended cemetery was his playground, a place where more than five generations of English men, women, and babies were buried, taken by typhoid, malaria, kala azar, and rarely old age.†   (source)
  • This is the 'typhoid state.'†   (source)
  • There is no rash to help sort this out (the "rose spots" of typhoid are invisible in our population), though I will grant you that typhoid causes a bronchitis and a slow pulse, and people with malaria often have giant spleens.†   (source)
  • Is it typhoid?†   (source)
  • Since he was a Polack and at the same time an academic, his overly anxious, beaming, avidly suppliant face was hardly more welcome around Gestapo headquarters than that of a typhoid carrier, but the Professor clearly did not know how far he was behind the times.†   (source)
  • Dan thought of everything that was in his bag, including the typhoid shots for Peyton and Ben Franklin.†   (source)
  • His target had been the teeming continents and the great plagues—malaria, typhus, cholera, typhoid, dysentery—and he was angling for a World Health Organization or Point Four appointment.†   (source)
  • Aspirin and cold compresses to reduce the fever, terramycin, which came very close to being a specific for typhoid, until the disease was licked; and he had the terramycin.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the headwaters of the Timucuan, or in the great, mysterious swamps from which slender streams sluggishly moved toward the St. Johns, a typhoid-carrier had lived, undetected.†   (source)
  • Typhoid is bad.†   (source)
  • It was typhoid.†   (source)
  • Oh, the usual typhoid and sleeping sickness.†   (source)
  • At the start of the movement, Pablo killed more people than the typhoid fever.†   (source)
  • Boss: Say she's got something contagious, typhoid, bubonic plague.†   (source)
  • Once, Eliza and four of her children were sick at the same time with typhoid fever.†   (source)
  • I told them there was sickness in the house, the typhoid, and it was death to move them.†   (source)
  • Luke got well after cursing doctor, nurse, and family for several weeks: it was stubborn typhoid.†   (source)
  • The Yankees won't hurt you and typhoid would.†   (source)
  • Dear Daughter, Your Mother and both girls have the typhoid.†   (source)
  • Soon Carreen and Suellen would have the insatiable hunger of typhoid convalescents.†   (source)
  • Packed into squalid cabins, smallpox, typhoid and tuberculosis broke out among them.†   (source)
  • They's typhoid down the line.†   (source)
  • Food was scanty, one blanket for three men, and the ravages of smallpox, pneumonia and typhoid gave the place the name of a pest-house.†   (source)
  • Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.†   (source)
  • Luke, the fourth to be attacked by the pestilence, was desperately ill with typhoid: Eugene was intrusted almost completely to a young slovenly negress.†   (source)
  • The chill walls festered with damp: they drank in death from the atmosphere: a woman died of typhoid, her husband came quickly out into the hall and dropped his hands.†   (source)
  • Grover was down with typhoid.†   (source)
  • …one, with Eliza, in the month of March, 1897, as deathwatch to the corpse of old Major Isaacs; three at the end of the month of July, 1897, when it was thought that Eliza, withered to a white sheeting of skin upon a bone frame, must die of typhoid; again in early April, 1903, for Luke, typhoid death near; one for the death of Greeley Pentland, aged twenty-six, congenial scrofulous tubercular, violinist, Pentlandian punster, petty check-forger, and six weeks' jailbird; three nights,…†   (source)
  • Pa—Pa told me that—that he got them not to burn the house because Suellen and Carreen were so ill with typhoid they couldn't be moved.†   (source)
  • Scarlett had seen enough typhoid in the Atlanta hospital to know what a week meant in that dread disease.†   (source)
  • The typhoid, Mrs. O'Hara said it was.†   (source)
  • As she folded it, so that her note was uppermost, she caught Gerald's words, "Your mother—typhoid—under no condition—to come home—"†   (source)
  • The Yankees are close to home and my little sister is ill with typhoid and—and—so now, even if I could go home, like I want to, Mother wouldn't let me for fear I'd catch it too.†   (source)
  • Moreover, many of them were dying, dying swiftly, silently, having little strength left to combat the blood poisoning, gangrene, typhoid and pneumonia which had set in before they could reach Atlanta and a doctor.†   (source)
  • She died of typhoid.†   (source)
  • "Typhoid's pretty bad, I know," Morel persisted.†   (source)
  • We land in a rut of obstetrics and typhoid and busted legs.†   (source)
  • Once he had rheumatic fever an' once he had typhoid.†   (source)
  • "They need some one to cook for them, and isn't it good to give them sponge baths, in typhoid?"†   (source)
  • He was convinced that she had caused at least one hundred cases of typhoid, with nine deaths.†   (source)
  • And our boy had typhoid because no clergyman had dropped water on him in church!†   (source)
  • "Did you know Baxter was in Sheffield Hospital with typhoid?" he asked.†   (source)
  • When I had typhoid fever his face got quite fat.†   (source)
  • In her discharges he found billions of typhoid bacilli.†   (source)
  • "Golly, I've seen typhoid in lumber-camps," groaned Miles, all the strength dripping out of him.†   (source)
  • The community at Delft had a typhoid epidemic which slackened and continually reappeared.†   (source)
  • In a few months we may be curing not only staph infections but typhoid, dysentery!†   (source)
  • Cause typhoid now, when she had been well for four years?†   (source)
  • You were devoted to her as a little girl, and nothing will describe her goodness to you through the typhoid fever.†   (source)
  • He had immunized rabbits to typhoid, and he believed that if he mixed serum taken from these immune animals with typhoid germs, the germs would die.†   (source)
  • His own mind was divided, for a younger brother of his had been sent to Germany when he failed in some examination, thus creating a precedent but since he had there died of typhoid it was impossible to look upon the experiment as other than dangerous.†   (source)
  • His fever had been diagnosed as typhoid in nature and treated accordingly, which meant a. diet of broths that had caused him to lose far too much weight.†   (source)
  • She's been here with her eldest son for five weeks now, a perfectly hopeless case, who'll be making his exit soon enough—it's all through him, his whole body's poisoned with it, you could say, and at that stage it looks a lot like typhoid fever, Behrens says—gruesome for all involved, at any rate.†   (source)
  • They fished him out and brought him here, and ten days later he developed typhoid fever from swallowing Thames water.'†   (source)
  • Looks to me like typhoid.†   (source)
  • She had had typhoid four years before.†   (source)
  • I was agin you in the typhoid epidemic, when you said that seamstress was carrying the sickness around, and then you showed me up good.†   (source)
  • Flashing through the county, not neglecting but certainly not enlarging his own practice, Martin mapped every recent case of typhoid within five miles of Delft.†   (source)
  • I want you to experiment with phage in pneumonia, plague, perhaps typhoid, and when your experiments get going, make some practical tests in collaboration with the hospitals.†   (source)
  • They prepared sera; the assistant in the Department of Bio-Physics was inventing electrified wire entanglements; Dr. Billy Smith, who six months before had been singing Studentenlieder at Luchow's, was working on poison gas to be used against all singers of Lieder; and to Martin was assigned the manufacture of lipovaccine, a suspension of finely ground typhoid and paratyphoid organisms in oil.†   (source)
  • Gustaf Sondelius shouted, in high places and low, that most diseases could be and must be wiped out; that tuberculosis, cancer, typhoid, the plague, influenza, were an invading army against which the world must mobilize—literally; that public health authorities must supersede generals and oil kings.†   (source)
  • Last year we had some very strange cases of illness among the visitors—typhoid cases, and cases of gastric fever— Mrs. Stockmann.†   (source)
  • The doctors open the body and say with an air of profound learning, 'The subject has died of a tumor on the liver, or of typhoid fever!'†   (source)
  • "That is true," said Charles; "but I was thinking especially of illnesses—of typhoid fever, for example, that attacks students from the provinces."†   (source)
  • That there might be an awkward affair with Wrench, Lydgate saw at once; but the ease was serious enough to make him dismiss that consideration: he was convinced that Fred was in the pink-skinned stage of typhoid fever, and that he had taken just the wrong medicines.†   (source)
  • It was eruptive typhoid.†   (source)
  • But since he did not mean to marry for the next five years—his more pressing business was to look into Louis' new book on Fever, which he was specially interested in, because he had known Louis in Paris, and had followed many anatomical demonstrations in order to ascertain the specific differences of typhus and typhoid.†   (source)
  • We have the same swamps and mosquitoes; the same disease and want; the typhoid, the diphtheria, the burning villages.†   (source)
  • And my wife has the typhoid.†   (source)
  • …booking-office tinner tinker tin-roof leads track (railroad) line trained-nurse hospital-nurse transom (of door) fanlight trolley-car tramcar truck (vehicle) lorry truck (of a railroad car) bogie trunk box typewriter (operator) typist typhoid-fever enteric undershirt vest vaudeville-theatre music-hall vegetables greens vest waistcoat warden (of a prison) governor warehouse stores wash-rag face-cloth wash-stand wash-hand-stand wash-wringer mangle waste-basket waste-paper-basket…†   (source)
  • —And the wife with typhoid fever!†   (source)
  • …doesnt look it thats all I can say still it must have been him he knew there was a boycott I hate the mention of their politics after the war that Pretoria and Ladysmith and Bloemfontein where Gardner lieut Stanley G 8th Bn 2nd East Lancs Rgt of enteric fever he was a lovely fellow in khaki and just the right height over me Im sure he was brave too he said I was lovely the evening we kissed goodbye at the canal lock my Irish beauty he was pale with excitement about going away or wed be…†   (source)
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