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Coulehan, Jack Shall Inherit

	On-Line Text and Audio
Genre	Poem
Keywords	Children, Infectious Disease, Parasitic Disease, Poverty, Survival
Summary	Pale, gaunt children from the backwoods hills of Kentucky bring their stool specimens to school so the visiting physician can check for worms. But these sinewy kids come from a long line of leathery ancestors "bred from one tough root"--and they keep on surviving whether they have worms or not. They "shall inherit" the earth, whether or not physicians treat them.
Source	First Photographs of Heaven
Publisher	Nightshade
Edition	1994
Place Published	Troy, Maine
Alternate Source	J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 271: 172j (1994)
Annotated by	Donley, Carol
Date of Entry	01/04/95