Word: lepere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuban leper, his arm scarred and painfully ulcerated, was bitten by a poisonous tropical spider. Strangely enough, he felt no ill effects, and the searing pain in his arm diminished for several days. His doctor passed the remarkable news on to his colleagues and soon the Pasteur Institute in Paris began work on the use of animal poisons for relief of uncontrollable pain. That was ten years ago. Most practical poison to use, the French scientists discovered, is cobra venom, which is easy to extract, measure and inject. Fortnight ago, in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Robert Northwall...
Divorced. Ken Maynard, 44, slick-haired film cowboy, and Mary Leper Maynard, 40, originator of Hollywood's drunk service; in Hollywood. Grounds: incompatibility. Her discreet, ginger-ale drinking "Cavaliers" will, for a fee, accompany a client on an alcoholic evening, insure...
Five Came Back, his third job there, cost approximately $230,000, shows clearly that quality is not all a matter of budget digits. A papal knight, in recognition of his Catholic writings which include a biography, Damien the Leper, published in 1937, once-divorced John Farrow is married to Cinemactress Maureen O'Sullivan, last month became the father...
Because of swift currents and shark-infested waters, escape from Devil's Island-until 1895 a leper colony-is considered impossible, has never succeeded. From the mainland, however, escape in Small open canoes down the river, across mudbanks, finally to some distant friendly shore is not only possible but, judging from the number of successful attempts, a rigorous yet comparatively easy undertaking...
...yellow fever sweeps out of the bayous and the people of New Orleans, among them Pres Dillard, begin to drop. When it comes time to remove Pres to the leper and fever colony on Lazarette Island, whence few return, Julie, strong in apparent regeneration, goes to nurse him, while his trustful Northern bride stays behind to pray for their return...