All 21 Uses of
typhoid
in
Angela's Ashes
- Mam runs after him and he tells her I have typhoid fever.†
Chpt 8typhoid = a serious intestinal infection caused by contaminated food or water
- The nurse says I'm the only typhoid patient and I'm a miracle for getting over the crisis.
Chpt 8 *
- Yoo hoo, boy with the typhoid, are you awake?†
Chpt 8
- Yoo hoo, are you there, typhoid boy?†
Chpt 8
- 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.†
Chpt 8
- 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.†
Chpt 8
- 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.†
Chpt 8
- Dipthteria is never allowed to talk to typhoid and visa versa.†
Chpt 8
- Sister Rita stops us in the hall to tell me I'm a great disappointment 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.†
Chpt 8
- They say they'd like some too but Mam says go away, ye didn't have the typhoid.†
Chpt 8
- I'm not bigger anymore because of the typhoid but I'm older.†
Chpt 8
- 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.†
Chpt 8
- 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.†
Chpt 8
- He had the typhoid last year and then this came.†
Chpt 9
- 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 with you, Frankie, and the two eyes in your head all gone brown?†
Chpt 9
- He stands in the aisle between the beds with his mop and his bucket and says the highwayman poem and all the patients stop their moaning 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.†
Chpt 9
- It might be the typhoid.†
Chpt 10
- 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.†
Chpt 11
- 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?†
Chpt 11
- 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.†
Chpt 11
- Bad enough you nearly died of typhoid, now you want to go blind on top of it.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
a serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by contaminated food or water
Environmental sanitation has virtually eliminated typhoid from the developed world, but worldwide it is still thought to infect millions and kill tens of thousands each year.
Typhoid may also be called enteric fever.
Typhoid may also be called enteric fever.