Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no free room or even bed at the clinic, but a bed was improvised in a room already occupied by a cretinous dwarf. While his family was out at lunch, the patient suffered a hemorrhage. He could not call out, but the friendly dwarf noticed his condition and rushed for help. After desperate efforts, the bleeding was stanched. Thus, writes Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones, a hitherto unhonored and still unnamed dwarf probably saved the life of Sigmund Freud...
...beefy sparring partners and a brace of trainers, all solemn and eager to pound the champ into proper shape for next week's bout with Challenger Carmen Basilio. Only the boss himself seemed to be a hangover from the high old times when he traveled with a clowning dwarf, a personal barber, his private golf pro and the one man a boxer needs least of all: a bodyguard...
Comedy or Truth? Gogol was a weedy little fellow with a tapir-like nose who was known at school as the "mysterious dwarf." His "spoilt and corrupt character" emerges like a combination of half a dozen case histories in abnormal psychology. He disliked making love to women, avoided his mother to the point of forging foreign stamps to make her believe he was living abroad. He was morbidly dependent on his friends' company. "Forget your wretched teeth." he wrote to a friend who wanted to go to see a dentist. "The soul is better than teeth...
...thing the curious doctor was busy disentangling and studying last week looked like an endless skein of white rubber band. Actually, he explained happily, it was 100 ft. of rare tapeworm which he found in the intestine of a whale captured off Catalina Island. Although his specialization is the dwarf mouse tapeworm, a common human parasite, Dr. Donald Heyneman, 32, of the University of California at Los Angeles, finds all tapeworms fascinating. He hates to pass up a chance to find a new species, for the surface of tape-wormology has hardly been scratched...
...Heyneman studies all the variations of tapeworm life, but most of his professional time goes to Hymenolepsis nana, the dwarf mouse tapeworm that infects between 1% and 2% of the population of U.S. Southern states. Its intermediate host is the flour beetle, which may be ground with grain and eaten by humans. It can also be carried to man by mouse droppings that get into the food. A person infected by H. nana soon develops immunity, ejects the established worms and does not acquire new ones for several years at least. Dr. Heyneman hopes to discover the mechanism of this...