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...past (so the legend goes), Cheju's founding fathers (Ko, Yang and Pu) emerged from three large openings in the earth to be joined presently by three Japanese women (who arrived by boat). As their offspring developed, a strange mutation occurred among the Kos, the Yangs and the Pus. The seaborne women settled down on the land while the earthborn men roamed the oceans and found other mates in foreign parts. The grass widows developed an independent amazon community, did all the work (mostly fishing) and never took permanent husbands. Males were invited to the island only once...
...home remedy stand by, got some hard words in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It can be fatal when it gets into a baby's for mula by mistake and, says Dr. E. H. Watson of Ann Arbor, Mich.: "As a lavage to remove pus from the eye, a weak solution of sodium bicarbonate is much more effective." His advice: throw that boric acid out of the medicine cabinet...
...best science then known, were dangerous by modern standards. Bleeding "to syncope" (fainting) was often prescribed, and if a patient was very weak and his veins hard to come at, "recourse should be had to the jugglars." Blistering and cauterizing were matters of course. In case of wounds, pus was considered a good thing and was sometimes encouraged by planting a piece of horsehair or thread under the skin...
...seen millions of people suffering for years. You examine the children's hair to see whether it is dry and brittle; when a child starts to go, his hair loses oil and it cracks easily. You look down at people's feet to see how many are pus-laden and split by wind or frost. Most of all you listen to the quality of their silence. The longer the trek, the more intense the silence, the more deadly the apathy...
...sulfas almost seemed to be the dream drugs he had looked for. They stopped deadly streptococci, even cured pneumonia. But the more sulfa drugs were used, the clearer it became that they 1) sometimes delayed healing by irritating wound walls, 2) did not work well in serum or pus. When used internally, they can cause severe, sometimes fatal, toxic reactions (TIME...