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When he first entered the House of Representatives in 1947, a gangling, 29-year-old youth still wearing his South Pacific suntans and a complexion yellowed by treatment for wartime malaria, there was considerable doubt about what Congressman Kennedy really did think. He seemed like a mixed package, partly conservative, partly liberal and a little bewildered, and Kennedy accepts the early label as accurate: "I'd just come out of my father's house at the time, and these were the things I knew." He meticulously served the parochial interests of his district-Boston's poorest-voting...
...inspectors and sanitation engineers, and the result was both inevitable and 'catastrophic. From the far corners of the sprawling nation, ominous reports began filtering back to Léopoldville: eruptions of bubonic and pneumonic plague, outbreaks of smallpox, widespread increases in serious but less spectacular diseases such as malaria, filariasis, meningitis and pneumonia...
...home, Henrietta Szold wondered whether the flies must always return, whether trachoma need be as prevalent as the common cold, whether men and women must forever be debilitated by malnutrition and malaria. To her, the answer lay in Jeremiah's second question. In Jerusalem there were only twelve doctors; in all Palestine only 45. On the Feast of Purim in February 1912, Henrietta Szold rallied U.S. women Zionists into an organization she called Hadassah (original Hebrew name for Queen Esther), made the betterment of Palestine's health its prime goal...
...full medical unit to the war-torn land. In the summer of 1918 the unit found Jerusalem's population down from 50,000 to 26,000; men, women and children half naked and only half alive, fought in the streets for scraps of garbage. Plague followed plague: malaria, typhus, influenza, cholera, dysentery, and the dread Black Death itself. Sent to Tiberias by British General Allenby, a Hadassah team found cholera rampant: the townspeople were using Sea of Galilee water to cook with, to swim in, and to bathe their dead...
Jack Kennedy, 43, says that he did have a "partial adrenal insufficiency." He laid it to a war-born case of malaria, which itself required treatment through 1949. To supplement adrenal output, Kennedy took regular doses of cortisone from 1947 to 1951 and again from 1955 to 1958. He still takes oral doses of corticosteroids (cortisone-type medication) "frequently, when I have worked hard," although a recent test showed his adrenals to be functioning normally. Whether his is an arrested case of Addison's disease or a borderline adrenal insufficiency is unclear. In two years of almost ceaseless campaigning...