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...sick could lie. After returning to France for a fourth year of medical school to complete the training he had received as an army medic, Riou went back to Haiti and built a second hospital room. Since then, he has constructed wards for 70 patients, a 40-bed TB sanatorium, a mental ward, a maternity ward and an operating room. He even has a dentist's chair where he pulls teeth...
Sitting atop the 1,000-ft. hump that gives the island its name, Father Riou's Notre Dame des Palmistes mission hospital treats 9,000 patients each year for TB, leprosy, venereal disease and a catalogue of other ills. So many come from the mainland to be treated that an outpatient hostelry is being built for them...
Boulder, Colo. Sir: Jack is the next of kin to the old medicines (I hesitate to call them snake oil) which were sold from wagons to people. It was claimed they could cure TB, baldness, hives, and any other affliction on earth. Undoubtedly Jack has created the greatest mass of hot air since Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lamp...
...tuberculosis, but among the Yemenite Jews there was soon a raging epidemic. This showed that resistance was no genetic or ethnic trait but a product of environment. Though they had lived in hovels, the Yemenite Jews had breathed dry air, relatively clean and germfree. With little exposure to TB, they had developed no resistance...
...another striking difference was evident. Recently arrived Yemenites who died of TB, or were killed in accidents amid the unfamiliar vehicular traffic, proved on post-mortem examination to have virtually no atherosclerotic heart disease. Yet this was the greatest killer among the Ashkenazim, Jews who had migrated to Israel from middle and northern Europe...