Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their mouths shut and they do as they are told. When the season ended at Burley, Idaho, a Navajo beet picker named Kee Chee dumbly obeyed orders to get his family on a chartered bus for the long ride home to New Mexico-even though it meant taking his sick, seven-month-old daughter out of a hospital at nearby Bear River City, Utah...
...Sick Call. In Oklahoma City, when Navy recruiters puzzled over his signature, Tonsillitis Jackson, 19, explained matters by listing the names of his brothers and sisters: Meningitis, 16, Appendicitis, 14, Laryngitis, 12, Jakeitis, 10, and Peritonitis...
Peptic ulcers are about four times as common among men as among women-nobody knows why.*Three University of Cincinnati psychiatrists decided that women ulcer patients were not getting enough attention, and set out to study what might have made a representative group of them sick...
Thousands of Hollanders were ready to swear that Simon W. J. Schaasberg, whose shingle proclaimed him a "psychometrist-homeopath," had cured them of every complaint in the book, from stuffy noses and hemorrhoids to pneumonia and cancer. For years, the sick had packed the tiny front room of Shaasberg's house in Maastricht. The street was sometimes blocked by cars and chartered buses that brought patients from afar. No less remarkable than his popularity were Shaasberg's methods...
...these shenanigans, Schaasberg was convicted of practicing medicine without a license. When he appealed, his lawyer argued that the law was inadequate: it should recognize a "gift" like Schaasberg's. Most of his witnesses proved friendly (though two were still too sick to testify), but they gave the lie to his claim that he asked no fees: actually, he charged 65? for most visits...