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Bustamante reached political maturity as author of the manifesto which launched the 1930 revolution. Since 1934, he has served with distinction as Peruvian Minister to Uruguay and Bolivia...
...which appeals to the Indian masses of Peru. One probable result of Bustamante's election would be a new deal for the Indians. General Ureta's defeat would be excellent news for Chile, Colombia and Ecuador, which have long worried about the aggressive designs of the bumptious Peruvian Army...
Favorite drugs were "mercurials, calomel, opium, niter, Glauber's salts, Dover's powders, jalap, Peruvian bark-and by the 1840s, quinine" in heroic doses. One doctor reported a patient who took so much calomel that his teeth fell out, then the upper and lower jawbones came out "in the form of horse shoes." One treatment for the ague involved putting the patient in a draft between two cabins, stripping off his clothes, pouring cold water over him until he had a "pretty powerful smart chance of a shake...
...Mapocho disaster underlined anew the old superstition that disasters run in cycles of three. Two other Chilean ships had been plagued by mysterious fires in recent weeks. In Valparaiso, stevedores loading the merchantman Naguilan had discovered a suspicious blaze in the ship's hold. Off the Peruvian coast, the square-rigged Lautaro, one of the world's largest sailing vessels and pride of the Chilean navy, exploded and sank with another cargo of war-scarce nitrate; 19 midshipmen burned to death or drowned...
...with 101. Eighteen have died in the Marines, 11 with the armed forces of Great Britain, eight in the Canadian services, seven in the United States Coast Guard, two in the Field Service, one in the Merchant Marine, and one each with the Fighting French and the Norwegian and Peruvian Air Forces. Six of the dead were civilians in special uniformed services or on government duty in combat areas...