Word: valjean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White Blood. Much as Dr. Jean Valjean Cooke of St. Louis disliked stating, intensive local research has failed to disclose a cause or cure of the disease called leukemia. In this disease white blood cells which normally should number 7,500 per cu. mm. multiply in some cases to as much as1,000,000 per cu. mm. Overproduction comes from the blood-making (hematopoietic) elements of the spleen, marrow and lymph glands. Death invariably results-for acute cases within three months. Chronic cases may hang on for five years or longer. Radium and x-rays, arsenic or benzol cautiously administered...
...concerned, it's a life sentence. I'll never pay it, for I'm broke." Two days later Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray granted him full pardon, compared his case with that of Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean, his judge with infamous Judge Jeffreys of 17th Century England...