Word: takada
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...public. PEOPLE FLARE UP IN ANGER, screamed the banner headline in Tokyo's largest daily Yomiuri Shimbun; it reported that irate callers were jamming the paper's switchboard with threats to smash sento windows and protests that "They are infringing on basic human rights!" Cried Mrs. Eiko Takada, 24, mother of three: "How can we keep our babies living without bathing them at least once a day? Is the sento association trying to commit wholesale murder of babies?" Declared Mrs. Mumeo Oku, the vocal chairwoman of the Tokyo Housewives Association: "These men must be out of their minds...
There, doctors humored the patient by trying the test diets he suggested. They had to admit that Ohishi was right: starches were bad for him, and bread was the worst. Dr. Tsuneo Takada, 30, took samples of Ohishi's digestive juices. In them microbiologists found a flourishing growth of a yeastlike fungus, Candida (or Monilia) albicans, occasional cause of human infections, but usually in the mouth or the vagina. In a normal gut, Candida may occur without causing fermentation. But in Ohishi's repaired bowel there was a little pocket where the Candida hid, multiplied, and busily fermented...
...Takada kept Ohishi in the hospital for a month on trichomycin, a homegrown Japanese antibiotic. Satisfied that Candida had been knocked out, he fed Ohishi test meals of starchy foods. Ohishi stayed stone sober, hopes that his built-in moonshine plant will remain shut down...