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Like most Polynesians, the Cook Islanders have a high tuberculosis rate, but Dr. Davis has found that they seem to have developed a resistance like that of Europeans: they form scar tissue and recover. They also have hookworm, and filariasis (the "mumu" of South Pacific G.I.s), which may reach the stage of elephantiasis...
...Department's most obvious scar of neglect is its lack of manpower. The Faculty Committee on Rules and Tenure has limited Public Speaking to one full-time instructor--Associate Professor Frederick Packard. Packard has three-fifths more teaching time to portion among assistants, but he can offer prospective aides neither advancement nor security of tenure. As a result, Packard has hardly trained a helper before the man leaves for a better job in some other college that takes speaking seriously...
...doctor in such cases, Thorndike states, should have complete "knowledge of the degree of the tear and the amount of fibrous scar produced in the healing process...
...well-organized athletic program where coaching and medical supervision work hand in hand," he observes, "there is little likelihood that the athletic will leave college with some disabling permanent scar, trick, knee, or leg paralysis, as a result of sport played for fun. On the other hand, there are graduates who have lost the spleen or one kidney or one eye because of contact sports...
...What else could they do when we had the case all sewed up?" Actually, the case seemed far from sewed up. Chicago police records showed that as a baby Mary Agnes Moroney had an operation for a ruptured navel, and doctors said it would probably have left a lifetime scar. Mrs. McClelland has no such scar. The Richmond (Calif.) Independent printed a story saying that Mary's foster mother got her from a foundling home 2y½ears before the kidnaping, though she could produce no records to prove it. A California doctor thought he remembered delivering the child...