Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dudley House: Seaman P Malin, William H. Chafe, Brian L. Villa, Ernest C. Black, Arnold L. Rosenberg, Robert C. Twombly, Gregory G. Tallas...
...Homer's islands. On one visit to Ithaca, he spent a morning chatting with some old men who had no suspicion of his sinister scholarly mission. One of the oldsters suddenly stared out to sea and said: "They say he still turns up around here, a soldier, a seaman, an old bum or something." Fitzgerald did not crowd his scholar's luck by asking any questions, but accepted gratefully this intimation that Homer's world was not dead-nor his Odysseus-in the hearts of the modern Greek...
...freighter Henri G., Swiss-owned and registered in Liberia, was far out in the Indian Ocean when a 19-year-old seaman fell sick. He suffered pain in swallowing and could not breathe easily; his tonsils were inflamed, swollen and covered with white spots; glands in his neck were swollen; his temperature...
...Henri G. had a well-stocked medicine chest, and a resourceful officer had used half the pharmacopoeia on the young seaman to no avail. But he had not exhausted his resources: the Henri G. had first-class medical help within easy reach-though 5,000 miles away...
...doctor concluded that the young seaman had severe tonsillitis. If the case had been more complicated, he would have consulted one of the 50-odd specialists always on call for CIRM (Centre Internazionale Radio-Medico), but he felt competent to handle this one himself. A reference book on the duty desk showed what drugs a Liberian freighter is required to carry. The doctor wrote out a message: Tea and Mineral Water. "Keep the patient in bed with absolute rest. Apply linseed poultices continuously on the swollen jaw. Give intramuscular injection of 500,000 units of penicillin combined with half gram...