ALFRED E. CORNEBISE, Typhus and doughboys. The American Polish Typhus Relief Expedition 1919-21, Newark, NJ, University of Delaware Press; Toronto and London, Associated University Presses, 1982, 8vo, pp. 188, illus., £16.60. To preserve his sanity during the Russian Civil War, so Pasternak tells us, Dr Zhivago threw himself into the care of victims of typhus, which in many parts of Eastern Eur...