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animal, that wants to destroy the disease it cannot control. The story leaves us with
an intriguing conclusion: Tennessee Williams
knew his microbiology, or at least enough to link a bizarre, atypical lesion to a new
disease that would ostracize and eventually destroy anyone unfortunate enough to
suffer from it.
University of Southern Mississippi

Philip C. Kolin

Notes
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la m grateful to Dr. Mary Lux, Dept, o f Medical Technology at the University o f
Southern Mississippi, for her invaluable help as I researched medical records for this
article.

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