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...definite diagnosis. En route, the patient spent four days in a pesthouse in Lagos. Then Dorothy Davis bravely volunteered to nurse her during the journey to New York. Dr. Frame was alerted about her arrival; so were Dr. John Baldwin and other physicians, who arranged for her admission to Presbyterian Hospital under conditions of the strictest isolation...
...blood serums. Using extreme precautions and working with two other expert virologists, he cultured a virus from the serums and injected it into mice. The adult mice died. Then in June, Casals fell ill. His first symptoms did not suggest what Frame had now christened Lassa fever. But at Presbyterian Hospital this diagnosis was confirmed. What to do? No known treatment was effective, but Patient Casals was more fortunate than his predecessors. Nurse Pinneo was convalescing, and there should still be antibodies in her blood. She flew to New York and gave two pints of blood. The cells were returned...
...this basically serious exercise in parody, Maclnnes adopts the young narrator-adventurer common to 18th century fiction. He is one Alexander Nairn, a pushy Scots lad but a bit of a Presbyterian prig. Alexander ships from Liverpool on a slaver carrying blacks from Africa on the final leg of their journey to West Indian sugar plantations...
Perhaps mercifully, both his parents died before he was four years old, and Russell was raised by his grandmother, a Presbyterian of strict selfdiscipline. At eleven, Bertie discovered Euclid under the tutelage of his older brother -"one of the great events of my life," he wrote, "as dazzling as first love." For the next 27 years, mathematics was his "chief source of happiness...
Married. Douglas Langston Rogers, 23, youngest of Secretary of State William Rogers' three sons, a student at Yale Law School; and Nancy Ann Hardin, 21, youngest of Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin's three daughters; in a Presbyterian ceremony in Washington...