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...roistering infuscate U. S. sailor seated himself with a crash upon one of the shaky iron tables in front of Florian's, most famous of the cafes facing the Piazza San Marco, Venice. Pulling out a wad of 100-lira notes, he tore them one by one across the middle, chanting full-throatedly: "She smacks me, she smacks me not!" Vexed at this insult to the national currency?this tactless hint that it was worthless?angry Venetians closed in upon the sailor, pummeled him, tweaked his broad nose, sought vainly to tug at his woolly hair...
About the corridors of Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, Sailor John Davis last week gingerly shuffled. On his swarthy, Africa-tanned face, was a look of puzzled anxiety. Internes watched him; nurses watched him; busy surgeons paused for an inquiring word. Sailor John had a funny looking fibrous ring around the base of each little toe. He did not know what caused them. Perhaps on his recent job of exploring in African jungles he had acquired some mysterious disease. Yet it caused him no pain. Only, his little toes were acquiring a dead look. Leprosy? "No," declared examining surgeons called...
...Sailor John certainly had ainhum. If the fibrous rings about his small toes were to continue in growth, as they surely would without surgical intervention, they would eat around through the muscles, tendons, nerves, bones and finally the atrophying blood vessels. Then those toes would fall off, painlessly. The disease is caused by no known germ or organism, yet probably by some jungle parasite. Slaves just imported into the U. S. used to have it once in a while. After their little toes decayed and dropped off, other toes were liable to become infected. One case is on medical record...
...surgeons cut off Sailor John's toes in hopes that they might save the rest...
...Prince ordered a stiff glass of brandy for the sailor, forgetting that under the Swedish "Goteborg System" spirits can be furnished only when solid food is also ordered. The barmaid, mindful of the law, refused to furnish a glass of brandy to the namesake of that mighty toper, Gustavus Adolphus, unless the Prince would order at least a bit of smorbrod...