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...caught pulmonary tuberculosis from one of the many bodies on which he performed autopsies. America was just entering the war. While waiting to be admitted to the famous Trudeau sanitarium in Saranac Lake, Percy lived in a boarding house, all alone, reading and beginning to write. He says now, 'TB liberated...
Illness was a constant theme of her story. Throughout her life, she suffered from an extraordinary variety of ailments: cancer, TB, liver disorders, emaciation, unexplained fevers, fainting spells and subcutaneous bleeding, among others. She is a great believer in nature cures, which she urged on Witke, including a potion made of lotus stock (to ease urination), a solution of sea water and bamboo (good for the gums) and dried white lilies (curative powers not specified...
...years later and in another country-knows that she must live similarly alone. "I'm going away," she finally lashes out at Brave Orchid. "And at college I'll have people I like for friends. I don't care if their great-great-grandfather died of TB. I don't care if they were our enemies in China 4,000 years...
...when Celine was 19, he enlisted in the cavalry and was wounded -in the arm, not the head, as he often claimed. After World War I he worked on a Rockefeller Institute project in France as an anti-TB propagandist, screaming at Breton villagers to boil their milk. He got into medical school, it was rumored, only by marrying the daughter of the head of the faculty...
...charging widely different prices in neighboring countries). EEC regulators have forced the dissolution of a price-fixing aluminum cartel, broken up a sugar price-fixing arrangement, and punished with a $200,-000 fine the Italian subsidiary of New York-based Commercial Solvents Corp. for refusing to sell anti-TB drugs to an Italian company that had resisted a takeover bid. Some 40 department detectives now show up without warning at company offices throughout the EEC and poke into files...