Word: noguchi
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...days after the great Dr. Hideyo Noguchi died in Africa (TIME, May 28) under the hot sun of northeastern Japan a woman was spading her wheat fields. Her hands were squarish; the palms rough, the backs faintly ridged with thin veins. Her face, rugged and serene, showed her 50 odd years...
...that he wore a black frock coat. His walk was diffident as well as awkward. She waited for him to come close. And her eyes widened as the ill forecast of his roundabout phrases became intelligible. Her brother, the great, the famed, the honorable, the revered Dr. Hideyo Noguchi was dead. She put her hands to her face and cried. Her spade fell over into the clods...
...happened so generally in Japan, especially a generation ago, Noguchi's sister had toiled with their family to get him an education. They saw that he had his private tutors in English, French and German, that he attended the Tokyo Medical College. When he became a doctor (1897) he got an assistantship at the Tokyo General Hospital; and thereafter his way was his own. He always kept an affectionate contact with his family...
Last week Japanese women, who have endured like Noguchi's sister, became openly irate over the present condition of medicine in Japan. The country has few great physicians and surgeons. But the average of the profession is far below the U. S. average. Quackery, magic and hokus-pokus are all too prevalent...
...West Africa, infection of a rhesus monkey was obtained with the blood of a native suffering from yellow fever, and soon after, other monkeys were infected with blood and by the bites of infected mosquitoes, from monkey to monkey and from man to monkey. Inasmuch as Dr. Noguchi did not go to West Africa until later (he was in New York during August), he could not have furnished the blood for the monkey inoculation, as reported; in fact, he had nothing to do with them, and you may add to this that his leptospira has never been found in West...