Word: glusker
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Indians of Peru are deeply uninterested in quite a lot of things. Some of the things that fail to stir their interest: hospital care, cleanliness, antivenereal treatments, vaccination, privies. Nor were they much impressed, at first, by Dr. David Glusker, nor by the fact that Dr. Glusker had been an instructor in Medicine at Cornell Medical School before he joined the Army last February. (Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs had discovered that Dr. Glusker knew a lot about tropical medicine and Spanish and whisked him off to the Tingo Maria district of Peru...
Tingo Maria Indians knew little about doctors but a lot about medicine men and the curative powers of drums when properly beaten. But drums sometimes get off beat. In such cases the Indians brought their sick to the hospital Dr. Glusker had run up in the Andean jungle. But they brought the drums along too, just in case...
...Tragedy of Mrs. Gomez. One day when 30 pupils at the local school, encouraged by their parents, refused to be vaccinated, Dr. Glusker knew he had to do something. What he did was to write a little story in Spanish, The Tragedy of Mrs. Gomez and Her Darling Daughter Serapia...
Serapia did the trick: after reading her sad story, the children clamored to be vaccinated. Dr. Glusker, a gleam in his eye, went on to write a whole series of stories called Fabulas para Pedro (Fables for Pedro), a little boy who rarely passes up a chance to plug Dr. Glusker's hospital...
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