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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 12,000,000 Negroes at hand. U. S. doctors have seen only two who turned completely white during life-one in Boston, one in Cincinnati. Last week a third specimen, Jean-Joseph Dauphin, arrived in Manhattan from the black Republic of Haiti. Blanched M. Dauphin carried a letter from Dr. Rulx Leon, director general of Haiti's public health service. The letter commended M. Dauphin to the attention of U. S. scientists. But immigration officers detained M. Dauphin at Ellis Island because he is illiterate. Later they let him proceed to the Chicago meeting of the Association...
Haitians call deliberate blanching "ouarization." They call darkening "haitianization." Jean-Joseph Dauphin "ouarized" himself by accident last summer. He asked his father, a brewer of herbs, for some "ouarit" beans to cure his asthma. The ouarit, sometimes called sea bean, is an oval, black-striped red bean about the size of a large lima bean. Jean-Joseph Ysmeon Dauphin's father told him to take only a speck of ouarit at a time, because the bean was an aphrodisiac. Jean-Joseph is 57. Suffering, he decided to kill or cure. He took a whole bean each day for five...
President Stenio Vincent of Haiti called on "ouarized" Jean-Joseph Dauphin. Haitian doctors examined him and the ouarit bean. They suspect traces of cyanide in the bean, hope U. S. investigators will discover the cause of the transformation...
...18th Century only two French experts, Jean Louis Hacquin and one Picault (both employed by Louis XVI), knew the secret of transferring a valuable painting from a rotted canvas or badly warped panel to a new backing, a very delicate operation in which all the original paint is left intact...
White Blood. Much as Dr. Jean Valjean Cooke of St. Louis disliked stating, intensive local research has failed to disclose a cause or cure of the disease called leukemia. In this disease white blood cells which normally should number 7,500 per cu. mm. multiply in some cases to as much as1,000,000 per cu. mm. Overproduction comes from the blood-making (hematopoietic) elements of the spleen, marrow and lymph glands. Death invariably results-for acute cases within three months. Chronic cases may hang on for five years or longer. Radium and x-rays, arsenic or benzol cautiously administered...