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...these simple symptoms are the only abnormal indications, how does the doctor know if one really has "mono" or if it is a just another cold? Moreover, why can't the student diagnose it himself? The doctor can be sure only after he has examined a blood smear. If he finds many cells of an abnormal type he has good evidence of the disease. A confirmatory tests consists of adding a small sample of the serum to a much larger amount of sheep's red blood cells. If the sheep's cells agglomerate the physician can be virtually positive that...
Mono is a curable disease. The cure is, however, most exasperating. All the doctor can do is prescribe bed rest averaging two weeks and an adequate diet. Occasionally he may use antibiotics to combat secondary complications which invade the weakened body, but these drugs do not attack the disease itself...
Infectious mononucleosis is a relatively unellucidated disease. The symptoms are both physically weakening and demoralizing. No one knows the cause and only the body can cure it. All the doctor and patient can do, is to give the body as much help as possible...
...Bekkai, whom they regarded as a dangerous extremist. Final solution was to dilute Si Bekkai's influence by adding not one but two more "moderate" members-one a young (38), obscure Berber chieftain called Si Tahar ou Ali Assou Loudyi, the other an old (71), respected jurist and doctor of Koranic law, Si Mohammed Sbihi. The council's first task: to designate a Moroccan Premier to form a representative Moroccan government...
Among the other originals: Flaubert's Madame Bovary (Madame Delphine Delamare, the faithless young wife of a middle-aged doctor who had studied medicine under Flaubert's father); Edgar Allan Foe's Marie Roget (Mary Cecilia Rogers, a beautiful clerk in a tobacconist's shop Poe patronized); Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Deacon William Brodie, by day a respectable Edinburgh town councilman who at night led a notorious gang of thieves and kept two mistresses). Most of them were interesting people; some were fascinating. But they all have one thing...