Word: agammaglobulinemia
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...another meeting in Atlantic City, the Association of American Physicians (dubbed, willy-nilly, "the Old Turks") heard about a new disease with a name like a Greek railway station: agammaglobulinemia. This is the condition which exists, said Dr. Charles A. Janeway of Harvard Medical School, when a patient lacks his natural share of gamma globulin, the immunity-carrying element in human blood. So far, all such patients have proved to be male...
...Colonel Ogden C. Bruton, is rare, fortunately, and is probably a byproduct of the antibiotic age. "Before the days of penicillin," said Dr. Janeway, "these patients must have succumbed to the extremely severe infections which either caused the condition or first brought it to light." Nobody knows yet whether agammaglobulinemia is present at birth or is picked up later in life. But its discovery may help to explain why some patients never seem to develop resistance against normally mild infections, and may die as a result...
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