Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fetal livers proved to be more powerful than the livers of older animals in stimulating the formation of blood in pernicious anemia...
Physiatrics: The art of treating metabolic diseases, as diabetes, anemia, high blood pressure, obesity, nephritis (special definition...
...cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses.† There is no medical reason and no stringent religious injunction against such eating. Scarcity of slaughterhouse fetuses, Dr. Elijah Joseph Gordon, slight, swarthy, witty Professor of Medicine at Ohio State University, admitted last week, handicapped him in effecting the experimental cure of two anemia cases this year.** Ordinary liver has become remedy of choice for the anemias (TIME, Oct. 21). Hog stomachs are being tested. Neither of these affected Professor Gordon's cases. An ingenious ratiocinator, he figured that the younger liver was, the greater might be its power of stimulating blood formation...
Ultraviolet rays are useful against pernicious anemia and leprosy (Dr. David Israel Macht of Johns Hopkins) and stimulate mental activity (Dr. Victor Emanuel Levine of Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha...
Three years ago George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy, Harvard medical men, discovered that liver eaten regularly and in great quantities overcame pernicious anemia. Later their colleague Edwin Joseph Cohn developed an extract to replace bulk liver. To Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis manufacturing druggists, the Harvard men gave the commercial monopoly because methods of manufacture were too delicate for novices to handle. Last year other pharmaceutical houses, in the U. S. and abroad, studied the preparations under Harvard instruction. So last week the Harvard Committee on pernicious anemia announced that good liver extracts were available almost everywhere, but that...