Word: noguchi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probable conquest of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a peculiar disease, the microbe of which is transmitted by the wood tick, and which is practically confined to Montana, Idaho and other northwestern states, is forecast by the discovery of a protective vaccine against the disease by Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, the distinguished Japanese pathologist of the Rockefeller Institute, who, in collaboration with Dr. Simeon B. Wolbaeh, of Harvard Medical School, has been studying the fever at Hamilton, Montana, for several months. Nine Japanese of Missoula voluntarily submitted to injections of the vaccine, although warned that its effects might be serious...
...Japan looks at the world today through Western eyes," claims Yone Noguchi, Japanese poet and professor of English Literature at the University of Tokio. Perhaps the best known of Oriental poets, Noguchi has taken the place of Lofcadio Hearn in bringing into closer touch the civilizations of the East and West. He is one of the few foreigners to adopt English as the language for his poetry, and all his work shows an ability to handle English as no other non-English poet save Tagore has done...