Word: krankheit
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...true that Candy, Mephesto the mad professor, Irving Krankheit the mad psychiatrist (author of Masturbation Now!), a mad Buddhist monk, and several other off-white slaverers at whom she throws herself, have as much fun as a barrel of impure-minded monkeys. But the result is not uproarious enough to require comparison to Byron (as one critic has suggested), unless you have something against Byron...
...Oeynhausen offer famed rheumatism cures. Some resorts, such as Baden-Baden and nearby Badenweiler, are known as Gesellschaftsbäder, or social spas, because patrons go there more for the crowd than the cure. Nearly all the spas advertise cures for the capitalist ailment known deferentially as Manager-Krankheit, the manager's disease. Says the owner of Baden-Baden's chic Bellevue Hotel, where Greta Garbo stayed through July without stirring a flicker of recognition: "With these rich people, all they really want is to recuperate from their last recuperation...
...conditions are among the world's worst: open sewers and crowded barracks breed typhoid and dysentery, rats spread plague, and prostitution keeps the venereal disease-rate high. Last week, westbound fugitives from the mines told of an added horror which has turned many miners into choking wrecks: Schneeberger Krankheit (Snow-Mountain sickness...
...Ages, silver miners sickened and died of it. In the last century, cobalt and bismuth miners caught it. In the 1920s, the German government awarded compensation to the Schneeberg miners, and forbade them to work there more than two years in a row. Until the Reds took over, Schneeberger Krankheit affected only a score or so of miners a year. In the atomic age, the true nature of the illness has been revealed...
Schneeberger Krankheit is not one disease, but a combination of three: 1)silicosis, caused by inhaling finely powdered rock dust, 2) cancer, brought on by radiation from the pitchblende, and 3) tuberculosis, as a complication of the first two. At first, the victim feels short of breath.Then he gets acute pains in the chest and back, and begins to cough a lot. Later comes a racking, bloody cough, rapid loss of weight, and a grey, cadaverous look about the face. The victim is doomed, though he may suffer on for months or years...
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