Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boeglers' cream supply, Mrs. Boegler wrote her, "I will pray for your hogs to get sick and die." The hogs died. Mrs. Boegler warned Mrs. Ray that she and her husband would get sick. Mr. Ray nearly died, of no apparent disease; Mrs. Ray last week, weak with anemia, said, "Mrs. Boeglers prayers don't get out of the sound of her voice...
...England, Baron Hewart, called and as a precaution ordered two hot water bottles and personally tucked the Hanging Judge into bed. Sometime during the night he rolled off onto the floor, was found next morning entangled in a snarl of sheets and blankets, dead of heart failure and pernicious anemia...
...little known that Dr. Hans Lisser of San Francisco made a stir by showing that a person's lazy insides may be prodded by thyroid treatment. Dr. Lisser's most remarkable patient suffered from ascites (abdominal dropsy); flaccid heart, intestines and bladder; profuse menstrual bleeding; secondary anemia. Iron for the anemia, thyroid extract for the other "capricious vagaries" brought, said Dr. Lisser, "magical relief...
Liver Extract for Pneumonia. People who suffer from pernicious anemia can keep well by 1) eating ten pounds of liver a month at a cost of about $5.50. 2) swallowing $17 worth of liver extract a month, or 3) taking one hypodermic injection of liver concentrate a month. The concentrate costs $1.17 a dose, not counting the doctor's bill. Dr. William Parry Murphy of Boston, who won one-third of a Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning pernicious anemia, last week stressed the little known point that liver also stimulates the growth of white blood corpuscles. Therefore, said...
Last week Professor Laird, whose sleep experiments have lately included producing anemia of the brain in some Colgate students, added the following to the A. M. A.'s explanation: "We still have to discover a definite scientific basis for the practice of sleeping head forward on trains. . . . Hemastatics may justify head forward position, since with the head forward the fluid inertia of the blood would cause it to accumulate in the splanchnic (abdominal) pool and thus render the brain relatively anemic. This would increase drowsiness and assist in going to sleep in the noisy and vibrating berth, but would...