Word: wart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Railway, when 7,000 workers died before the rails had been pushed out of the valley. The first investigator of the disease was a medical student named Daniel A. Carrión, now a Peruvian national hero, who died after inoculating himself with serum from a patient's wart. Verruga is still something of a medical mystery. Nobody has ever found out how the sandfly acquires its parasite, where it lays its eggs, why it seems to have thrived only in one narrow area. Doctors have found no effective treatment for verruga. Natives burn animal dung and pungent eucalyptus...
...first London merchant to buy U.S. style full-page newspaper ads and to boast of such unique department-store services as wart removal, pipe cleaning, coal delivery, cricket-bat oiling, wig making, expert umbrella rolling...
Clark Gable entered a Los Angeles hospital for an operation to get rid of a wart on his tongue...
...starter, Dr. De Kock & Co. plan to drive every last wild animal in a 400-square-mile area - kudu, wildebeests, wart hogs, hyenas, zebras, duikers, baboons, storks, vultures, rats - into a small game reserve deep in the forest. They will not be slaughtered, though many surely will be killed before the drive ends. Ultimately the reserve will be ringed by a cordon sanitaire of cleared ground, two miles wide, which the tsetse presumably will not cross...
Explanation: a wart is a virus growth which has a tendency over a period of months to heal itself. By suggestion, it is possible to stimulate circulation of the blood; the increased blood flow in the warty area accelerates spontaneous healing...