Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milwaukee, Drs. J. L. Yates and William Thalhimer made use of an old soak who had pernicious anemia. He was 65, had wretched teeth and would get drunk between blood transfusions. Altogether he received 52 litres (54.95 quarts) of blood. Some of it was fresh from the donors; some had been kept in cold storage; some was modified, some unmodified. The man soaked up anything the doctors thought good for him. When he died he was living on blood three-fourths of which was not his own and had undergone 113 transfusions. "No other patient has received...
...treatment for pernicious anemia, devised by Drs. George R. Minot and William P. Murphy and applied by Dr. Walter W. Palmer of the Manhattan College of Physicians & Surgeons, has shown such good results at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, that doctors are telling each other of it. The treatment consists of feeding anemic patients a regulated diet of liver, kidneys and chicken gizzards. These foods contain iron and easily assimilated proteins which the victims need, but which their blood does not manufacture in sufficient quantity...
Pernicious anemia is one of those baffling diseases which irritate doctors because they can know so little about it. It is not the ordinary anemia which many girls experience. Nor is pernicious anemia that faintness that comes on with occasional loss of blood. In such cases the blood marrow of the bones immediately manufactures enough strong red blood cells to make up for the lost ones. In pernicious anemia, the patient may live two or three years, but hope for complete cure has heretofore been vain. Blood transfusions give only temporary relief...
Died. Leonid Krassin, 56, Russian Soviet Chargé d'Affaires ("Ambassador") at London; in London, of pernicious anemia, after numerous blood transfusions had failed to save his life. "The Bourgeois Bolshevik," he enjoyed the confidence of Lenin and Trotsky although he held much more moderate views than theirs. He negotiated most of the commercial treaty on which Soviet commerce rests today. He was rec ognized as Ambassador at Berlin and Paris, but although he was accredited in London as an Ambassador the British Government never recognized him as anything but a chargé d'affaires. Six thousand British...
Died. Major General George ("Do-It-Now") Bell Jr., U. S. A., retired, 67; in Chicago, of pernicious anemia...