Vom Wirtschaftsgeist in Amerika

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Identifikator:: 1748646508

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-122686

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Rühl, Alfred http://d-nb.info/gnd/118750267

Title:: Vom Wirtschaftsgeist in Amerika

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Quelle & Meyer

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: IX, 122 S

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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XXIX HEALTH PRECAUTIONS Travel in Latin America can be made comparatively safe, from a medical point of view, by the strict observance of a few common sense precautions. Perhaps the first thing to be considered is the question of water. With but one or two exceptions, drinking water is notoriously bad in all of these countries, be ing polluted and almost certain, if drunk, to develop, sooner or later, either typhoid or some other intestinal disorder. Credence should not be placed in the well-intentioned statement of the native that the water is good. Like their ancestors, through the continual drinking of the local water, they have become self-immunized to any form of contagion from its use. Because the water comes from snow- clad mountains does not insure its purity, either. Most mountain streams, long before 368

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