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...nurse tending tuberculous patients is entitled to workman's compensation if she catches the disease, for TB is undeniably a hazard of her job. But what about a truck driver who contracts TB while confined in his cab with a constantly coughing helper...
Paider's lawyers cited precedents in which compensation was awarded to a telephone operator who caught TB from a mouthpiece infected by another operator; and to a lab technician who had the same experience with a pipette. The court was not impressed. In those cases, it said, the claimants faced "special hazard" in using oral tools that were indispensable to their jobs. A truck cab bearing a tuberculous co-worker is no such "instrument of transmission...
Even the most universally useful anti-TB drug, isoniazid, is harmless only if the patient's enzyme system can break it down readily: if not, he is likely to develop a generalized neuritis, or even an acute form of rheumatism...
...Deal days, Polish-born Dubinsky as a youth was banished to Siberia for calling a strike against his father's bakery, escaped, emigrated to the U.S., and joined the union at 19 as a buttonhole maker in Manhattan's "lung blocks" (so called because of their high TB incidence...
Gielgud is convincing. His Ivanov is always on the verge of cruelty to himself, and to others. In the opening scene he nervously admits to his dying wife's doctor (played in an appropriately intolerable, stiffly self-righteous fashion by John Merivale) that as she approaches death from TB he loves her less, that her illness is simply getting on his nerves. He knows the doctor must think him a monster but, he says, rubbing his hands in agitation, and raising his voice in irritation, he just can't help...