Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infant's blood develops, it sometimes causes the mother's blood to protect itself by forming "antibodies." The antibodies may become strong enough to invade the infant's bloodstream, killing it while still in the womb, or causing it to be born with abnormal blood, severe anemia and jaundice. Some such "erythroblastic" babies can be saved by blood transfusions soon after birth. Others are in such bad shape that nothing can be done...
Died. Dr. Charles Austin Beard, 73, dean of U.S. historians; of aplastic anemia; in New Haven, Conn, (see EDUCATION...
What was it? The researchers isolated one microorganism after another; they cultured each and tried it out. Last week they reported in the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine that they had found a chicken dung culture which produced the same effect as liver extract in patients with pernicious anemia...
Samples of what they called "animal protein factor" have been tried out on patients at Western Reserve University's hospital in Cleveland. Two aged women, extremely ill with pernicious anemia,' responded as well as patients respond to liver extract. The discovery is important. For the first time, a laboratory has produced from commonly occurring bacteria a substance with anemia-treating properties, and pernicious anemia patients are freed from the ups & downs of the meat market. Liver extract, obtained from cow livers, varies in quality. The new product will eventually be mass-produced and comparatively cheap. The animal protein...
Rita Hayworth, 29, spent the week in a Paris hospital, getting injections and a transfusion for anemia and exhaustion...