Measles

Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya, second son of the Mikado, lay abed at Miirren, Switzerland. Now and then he twitched about and eased the pain-pricks darting through his left instep, recently strained by a sprawl upon the ice (TIME, Feb. 22). Several times he wakened in the night and wondered why he seemed to be growing pain-prickly all over.

Soon after dawn his Japanese physician visited him, blanched. Rushing from the room he telegraphed to Berne for a specialist, to Geneva for a nurse, to London for another nurse. Prince Chichibu had been stricken with measles--a serious disease for an adult.