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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Hudson Maxim, 74, famed inventor; from anemia and gastric ulcers; at Lake Hopatcong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 16, 1927 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...Karl Koessler of Chicago utilized the new knowledge of vitamin E (see above) in devising a dietary treatment for pernicious anemia which he reported to the Chicago Society of Internal Medicine last week. Victims of pernicious anemia cannot, for reasons not yet entirely solved, manufacture red blood cells. To aid this manufacture Drs. George R. Minot and William P. Murphy devised a diet rich in iron compounds-liver, kidneys, gizzards. Dr. Walter W. Palmer of Manhattan proved this diet beneficial (TIME, Dec. 20). One reason for its good effects was that the liver, in particular, contained, besides iron, vitamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pernicious Anemia | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

Travis B. Smythe, 26, Thornton, Tex., oil refinery chemist, found the fumes of boiling benzine "rather pleasant," not realizing that they were attacking his spleen, causing him pernicious anemia, and hemorrhages of his mucous membranes. Blood has been oozing from his mouth, nostrils, intestines, bladder; and his organs for manufacturing new, replacement red blood cells have not been functioning properly. In Baylor Hospital, Dallas, Tex., last week he borrowed blood for the 42nd time in six months. With three arm veins already destroyed by repeated blood transfusions and realizing his futility, he said: "I'd be a quitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood Borrowers | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Charles H. Peck, 56, famed as "a surgeon of surpassing technical skill, disciplined daring and resource of the highest order"; at Newtown, Conn.; of pernicious anemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 11, 1927 | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...time-table the Negro will never get to the land beyond.' 'Thriftlessness,' said I, 'is the Negro's great handicap-thriftlessness of time, health, money.' Chicago Commissioner of Health Bundesen followed me, urged Negroes to eat properly so as to avoid anemia, pneumonia, rickets." Pliny Fisk, financier: "After dining in a Columbus Circle restaurant one evening last week, I walked toward my hotel, on the upper west side of Manhattan, alone. A large Negro brushed roughly by me. 'Be careful how you are walking,' said I. 'Mind you' own business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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