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...seems that everyone is sick these days. I know I am, with something that feels like a combination of Beri-beri and double pneumonia. Which is why I haven't been to any of the exhibits I'm talking about this week. Some of the names and titles sound interesting though, and are probably worth a visit...
...Beri-Beri. Once he was shifted to rear echelon forces, he was treated more harshly. "At one point, I was told that if I had a nightmare and cried out once more in my sleep they would shoot me." The behavior of his captors varied considerably. "The range went from the saintly to something out of the Marquis de Sade. Some I would invite into my own home. Others I would like to take back of the woodshed and only one of us would return." There was the doctor who saved his life when he went into convulsions after bouts...
...Tigers will get their revenge unless they have an exceptionally bad night or unless Bradley comes down with an attack of beri-beri before the game...
Ensign Pulver, his bunkmate from Princeton, is beautifully caricatured by Jackie Cooper, who has developed from his child star days to make the bumbling, lazy Pulver not only comic but sympathetic. Robert Burton plays the ship's doctor ("What are you giving them this week for double beri-beri?" "Aspirin, of course,") and Roberts' chief confidante capably...
...Takasago's patients were more dead than alive. A Navy doctor estimated that 15% of them had been so underfed that they would never reach Japan. Another 15% had tuberculosis. The rest were in varying stages of emaciation, suffering from pellagra, beri beri and scurvy. To treat them, the Japs had no plasma or whole blood, no penicillin, sulfa or synthetic vitamins...