Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warren Cooksey, technical supervisor of Detroit's blood bank, thought the red blood cells should be saved if possible-they are the material needed in a large proportion of hospital transfusions (e.g., anemia), are ordinarily given to patients in whole blood purchased from professional donors at $25 a pint. Dr. Cooksey found that, mixed with a simple salt solution, red cells will keep in good condition for a little over a week, provided processing takes place within an hour of bloodletting. At his suggestion, the blood bank will soon send Detroit hospitals 800 pints of red blood cells...
...George Hoyt Whipple, professor of pathology at the University of Rochester, George Richards Minot, professor of medicine at Harvard, William Parry Murphy, practicing physician in Boston and associate at Harvard-a trio who shared (1934) the prize in physiology and medicine for their discovery of liver therapy for anemia...
...have a little money eat spinach, cabbage, string beans, kohlrabi or turnips. Their diet is deficient not only in energy content, but in calcium (necessary for bones and teeth), protein (essential for tissues), vitamins A, C and D. Hence many suffer from osteomalacia (softening of the bones), scurvy, anemia, severe rickets, infantile tetany (convulsions), horny skin, tuberculosis. Unlike the U.S., North China has little vitamin B deficiency, for the roughly milled flours are rich in vitamin B elements...
...Said Dr. Snapper: "The parasitic disease which places its mark all over internal medicine in North China is kala-azar....It has to be considered in nearly every patient." This hideous malady, caused by tiny protozoa (Leishmania), produces an enormous spleen, anemia, and ulcers around the mouth, robs the body of its white blood cells, kills 95% of its victims who are not treated. Antimony is a specific for the disease, but of course few of its victims ever see a doctor until the disease is far advanced. Kala-azar is primarily an affliction of dogs, is passed to human...
...quite accurate. For specific vitamins do not invariably cure specific diseases; they all work together. Experience has shown that in groups of people deprived of all vitamins for a long period of time, various individuals develop different deficiency diseases. Some do not even have scurvy or pellagra; they develop anemia instead-a disease not ordinarily believed related to vitamin deficiency...