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...months, the 44-year-old leprosy patient lay in Jerusalem's Rothschild Hadassah University Hospital, plagued with insomnia and skin eruptions, muscle and joint pains, and high fever-the devilish collection of leprosy-caused symptoms known as lepra reaction. In a last-ditch effort to ease his pain and that of five similarly afflicted patients, Israeli Dermatologists Felix Sagher and Jakob Sheskin decided last November to try an unorthodox remedy: thalidomide...
...Tepee Fever...
...masterful Essay on the lack of servants [July 9], but you failed to mention what happens to money that might be spent on them. The money goes to doctors who treat housewife's syndrome (monster fatigues and creeping paralysis of the mind), psychiatrists who treat tepee fever (life with father was better), foot specialists who make health shoes with cast-iron shanks so you can keep on ironing for four more hours, and orthopedic surgeons who diagnose and treat commuter husbands for slipped discs generated by aerobatics performed six inches above the crab grass...
...complaint was a stiff neck, the consequence of trying to do calisthenics in his bathtub. "I can only manage half a backswing," he groaned. Peter Thomson kept quiet-mostly because he had never felt better in his life. For four years, he had been plagued by chronic hay fever, but Royal Birkdale's sea breeze was just the thing for his sniffles...
...Conant convinced was George Packer Berry (A.B., Princeton, '21; M.D., Johns Hopkins, '25) who had almost as much experience as a patient as he had as a physician. A microbiologist, Berry had suffered a miserable, lingering attack of psittacosis ("parrot fever") and another of hepatitis while studying viral infections...