Many Vets Believed to Be Tropical Disease Sufferers
A VA medical consultant reports many World War II veterans may suffer delayed tropical infections unrecognized since return. He cites low prior recognition rates and misdiagnosis as psychoneurosis, noting possible chronic amebic infections dysentery hookworm filariasis and schistosomiasis among returning servicemen.
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New Orleans
Veterans Administration
Thomas T. Mackie
Winston-Salem
N. C
United States
American Society of Tropical Medicine
Mackie
Tropical Disease Clinic
Ex-rheumatoid patient turns hypochondria into joke
Hal Boyle recounts faking health cures by borrowing meds from office hypochondriacs. After publishing the method he develops a real rheumatoid infection and ends up in bed with a doctor’s dubious diagnosis and a plan to mockingly diagnose others with “poor man’s gout.”
Itchy Pimples Kill Romance
Many broken romances traceable to scratching skin blemishes. Seek relief with Peterson's Ointment 40c at all druggists. One application delights or money refunded. Also for tired cracked feet.
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Peterson
Yellow Jacket Capsules Traced to Chicago
Anderson police link yellow jacket capsules found on drunks to a Chicago source after a Negro arrested here carried two pill boxes and a mailed prescription from Chicago. District Attorney Oscar Doyle will investigate and contact federal authorities.
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Chicago
Anderson
S. C
Ray Aldridge
Gastonia
N. C
Carolina
Oscar Doyle
17 Year Old Girl Admits Killing Father in Greenville
Florine Coleman aged 17 signed a statement admitting she shot her 47 year old father Charles Lloyd Coleman near their suburban Greenville home. The shooting followed two days of tense family relations over objections to a boy she had been dating. She was held on $2,000 bond and released after questioning pending further investigation.
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Greenville
S. C
P — Florine Coleman
R. Homer Bearden
Bearden
Charles Lloyd Coleman
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