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After a morning at the Medical School and an evening dinner at Eliot House, the Overseers still have done nothing to cure the University of its acute case of curiosity...
...almost totally blind. Not until then did a cautious Yaqui Indian sidle up and tell Joe what had really happened: "She's had a curse put on her by a powerful witch." Joe snorted. But when the Yaqui recommended that he see a Puerto Rican bruja about a cure. Joe went. The witch knew all about Josefina's case, and offered to save one of her eyes for $100. Joe paid...
...Pitiquito, in Sonora and Cavorca, Mexico. Finally Joe went humbly to Maria herself; in her flyblown parlor, with its green altar and its saints' pictures (some laid face down with coins placed against their lips to protect Maria's clients from gossip), Joe begged for a cure...
...Alexander vigorously defended his antibiotic. "[The trouble] is not that it makes the microbes resistant," he said, "but rather that some people become sensitive to it. The penicillin still works on the germs, but the patient sometimes becomes too uncomfortable to permit its use ... In those cases, the cure may be worse than the ailment...
...Ehrlich's dream of a "magic bullet" to cure syphilis came a step nearer fulfillment. The Chicago health department treated 125 early cases with single whopping doses (2,500,000 units) of Bicillin, a variant of penicillin which stays in the body as long as a month. After a year, 94% had no sign of the disease...