Word: pinta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daly: "The gun! The gun! The signal . . . from the Pinta! [shouts of 'Tierra! Tierra!'] Land! Land! ... I see it, too. A white sand cliff gleaming! . . . Pandemonium has broken loose here on the deck of the Santa Maria. . . . I'm all choked up. ... I return you now to CBS in London...
...Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta, were a new political party, the Movimento Unionista Italiano (Italian Unionist Movement). Its emblem was the Stars & Stripes, the Italian flag and a world map. The word spread through the fishing villages, vineyards and olive groves of southern Italy and Sicily, where almost every ragged family has a relative in the U.S. In last month's municipal elections, the Unionists won four local governments, elected a total of 227 aldermen. Last week jubilant Paladino announced that his followers now numbered 875,000 and that his party would run a full slate...
...Pinta does not hurt, does not make patients ill in the early stages, but: 1) it produces unsightly blotches; 2) patients usually have positive Wassermann and Kahn tests (their doctors are likely to tell them that they have a venereal disease); 3) anti-syphilis drugs help early pinta, but once the white spots develop, nothing restores the skin to normal; 4) the disease goes on & on (one of Dr. Lieberthal's patients has had it for twelve years...
Dermatologists used to think pinta was a fungus disease, but in 1938, Mexican doctors proved that the germ is a spirochete that looks exactly like those of syphilis or yaws (a tropical disease characterized by sores on the skin). In 1939, Mexico's Dr. Francisco Leon y Blanco published the results of experiments on himself and 31 Mexican and Cuban volunteers, all of whom had been inoculated with material from pinta patients. Dr. Leon y Blanco gave the first play-by-play description of the disease's course. First a small, dark raised spot appears...
...Lieberthal's Chicago patients (two Negroes and one mixed Negro, French and Indian) were born in Canada or the U.S., knew no one from the tropics, knew no one with pinta. Dr. Lieberthal does not know where they picked...