Word: noguchi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible connection with the 1918 world influenza epidemic was neglected for the theory, best formulated by Simon Flexner and the late great Hideyo Noguchi, that a virus so fine that it seeped through the finest unglazed porcelain was the cause. Dr. Falk went back to the Rosenau indication. When influenza struck Chicago severely last winter, he and his assistants took cultured smears from every throat they could reach. They slept on their desks to avoid losing time...
...Lagos. Nigeria, over a year ago, went Dr. Hideyo Noguchi and a party of scientists to study yellow fever there in behalf of the International Health Board...
Rockefeller Foundation. The fever has already killed Dr. Adrian Stokes of Guy's Hospital, London. It must kill no more. Yet within a few months it did kill Dr. Noguchi and, a few days later, Dr. William A. Young, his associate. Last week as another associate, Dr. A. Maurice Wakeman, was sailing to Southampton, the fever killed him-the fourth. He was 31, "perhaps the outstanding graduate of the Yale School of Medicine." He was on his way to teach as assistant professor at Southampton...
...happened so generally in Japan, especially a generation ago, Noguchi's sister had toiled with their family to get him an education. They saw that he had his private tutors in English, French and German, that he attended the Tokyo Medical College. When he became a doctor (1897) he got an assistantship at the Tokyo General Hospital; and thereafter his way was his own. He always kept an affectionate contact with his family...
Last week Japanese women, who have endured like Noguchi's sister, became openly irate over the present condition of medicine in Japan. The country has few great physicians and surgeons. But the average of the profession is far below the U. S. average. Quackery, magic and hokus-pokus are all too prevalent...