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...threat-and survived. Then, the Tichbornes went to France and the gift was forgotten. In their absence the manor house was destroyed. Two generations of seven sons and seven daughters came & went, and the Tichborne lands and title passed to one Edward Doughty. Born a Tichborne, Edward-by a fluke of fate-had changed his name earlier. The curse was only technically fulfilled, but since then every Tichborne has been careful to make the annual presentation of flour to the villagers of Alresford...
character labels: Austin from Boston, fluke from Dubuque, groan from Bayonne, keeno from Reno, leery from Erie, mute from Butte, noisy from Boise, pester from Chester, skunk from Podunk, trixie from Dixie...
Schistosomiasis, caused by a tiny blood fluke which burrows under the skin of river bathers, causes fever, hives, bladder infection, sometimes cirrhosis of the liver. The parasite has a complicated life cycle: its eggs, hatching in warm water, develop larvae which enter snails, there develop to a second, man-attacking larval stage called cercariae or flukes. A single snail may produce 32,000 flukes...
Fighting the Fluke. Dr. Barlow's recovery was long and painful. He ran a high fever, was so full of schistosome eggs that doctors cut nests of them out of his flesh. Last week, although the standard tartar emetic treatment* had rid him of most of his flukes, he noted that: "There is still no time, day or night, when I am not in pain...
...knowing that the U.S. Army, Navy, Public Health Service and several universities were now studying schistosomiasis. Proving a theory long held by Dr. Barlow, two P.H.S. doctors had discovered (in the laboratory) that there is, indeed, at least one U.S. snail (Louisiana variety) which can harbor the Egyptian fluke, schistosoma mansoni...