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...some students of Stanley Medical College picked Alamadi as a place to set up a Sunday clinic. Said one: "We thought it quixotic that there should be so much cutthroat competition among city doctors, while a few miles away peasants died of tetanus because they thought cow dung would cure an abscess...
Alamadi's untouchables are treated first, caste Hindus second. Last Sunday, a 35-year-old mason named Sriramulu showed a foul-looking ulcer on his ankle, explained: "First there was an abscess. When it became very painful, I cut it with a penknife. This did not cure it. The village barber told me to apply lime and tobacco. It got worse and I tried a local remedy, covering up the sore with mud. That did not do any good, either." The student put on a sulfa dressing, told Sriramulu he was lucky not to have developed tetanus...
...doctors can cure hookworm anemia, suppress malaria and relieve leprosy. But most of the sick in Alamadi need food more than medicine. It would take much more than a weekly bus to cure that...
...include lecture halls, a desperately needed central library, and a student dining room. They are going to organize the first adult education program ever attempted in Germany and are planning on a yearly program of U.S. guest lecturers. And perhaps most important of all, they will try to cure the worst blind spot in old-style German education-its failure, for all its technical excellence, to turn out graduates with a thorough understanding of each man's privileges and responsibilities as a citizen...
...Walter can cure his pets of their neuroses; all he has to do is disconnect a few circuits. But if he is ever called before an electronic St. Peter, he will have much to answer for. He created a race of happy (though simple) machines; then drove them to distraction by giving them too much brain...