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...table with the royal buffoons, received the same daily allowance as the royal barbers. But his job gave him the two things he needed most, a powerful protector and a studio of his own. He painted in it for 36 years, until he died suddenly of a fever...
Wrens and Marmalade. Young Wendell was raised among Boston's Brahmins by a father whose eccentricities plagued his son more than a storm of briefs. Dr. Holmes was noted professionally for his researches into puerperal fever. But he was famous as an indefatigable essayist and light versifier. His Autocrat of the Breakfast Table had impressed even the Germans - who read it under the some what imperious title, Der Tisch-Despot...
...prefer them to white doctors (in the islands there are about 20 white doctors, 200 N.M.P.s for 1,000,000 people). But N.M.P.s' chief job is to care for their own people. Native diseases are bad: yaws (a childhood skin disease caused by a spirochete), malaria and blackwater fever, filariasis (worm infestation which frequently ends as elephantiasis). The imported diseases are often worse: diphtheria, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, leprosy, measles (which is often fatal to South Pacific natives who have not yet acquired immunity). The N.M.P.s vaccinate, fight mosquitoes, teach latrine building, operate for elephantiasis, give quinine, deliver babies. The slow...
Hope and Politics. Mississippi's boom is so far the Southeast's best, but at least five other states have oil fever...
Doctors of the San Diego Naval Hospital went over to Tijuana to hear Dr. Perez Garcia. They were impressed. They invited him over to treat a few stubborn cases of malaria and rheumatic fever. A malaria patient had no more fever after his first shock. (Dr. Garcia's full course of treatment is usually four shocks, five days apart.) One rheumatic fever patient, after one treatment, refused to go on. But of the other two, one got well, the other improved...