Word: stunkard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most interesting case. Infestation with flukes is an oriental disease rarely seen in the U. S. Doctors probed their text books. Internes peeked at the pallid patient. Messages went to Dr. Horace Wesley Stunkard of New York University, authority on those flat, leaflike worms called flukes. Reporters learned to spell accurately trematode, clonorchis. Ralph H. Thurber made fine human-interest copy. That he was a minister diseased for the Gospel's sake added poignancy...