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...Belgium's King Leopold II had offered a $4,000 prize for a means of delivering his African subjects from "this terrible plague." Working not for the prize but for humanity, investigators at Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research began an intensive search for a cure. Drs. Walter A. Jacobs and Michael Heidelberger juggled chemical groups into new molecular combinations. In 1915, they found tryparsamide. Physicians Wade H. Brown and Louise Pearce concluded from tests on animals that this was just what they needed...
...Pearce took tryparsamide to the Belgian Congo in 1920. At an experiment station in Leopoldville, she tried it on scores of suffering natives, found it both safer and far more effective than atoxyl. In the earlier stages of sleeping sickness, it can work a complete cure...
...church building itself everyone is given the privilege to sit or kneel wherever he desires . . . I am not unmindful, as a Southerner, of the force of this virus of prejudice among some persons in the South, as well as in the North. I know, however, that there is a cure for this virus, and that is our faith...
...British people as a whole have not yet had the will to prosper. Neither government nor opposition dares allow itself to be disclosed fully facing the facts." What most worried the Times was the too-popular conviction that somehow, somewhere, "there is a formula that of itself will cure the country's ills ... A new Elizabethan Age," warned the Thunderer, "is in danger of becoming an incantation, a magician's hey presto, as if the nation's new stature could be established merely by proclaiming...
...shin kick had caused a blood clot next to the bone. The clot became infected and inflamed, spreading the bad infection into the bone. There was talk of amputation. Penicillin and diathermy saved the leg, but while such infections can be curbed, they are sometimes impossible to cure. Mickey, who must guard against flare-ups of the infection, has had his share of poison-pen letters demanding to know why he is not fighting in Korea. On medical advice, Mickey's draft board has rejected him three times...