Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When she was a year old, anemic Beverly was taken to Akron's Children's Hospital. A deep injection of liver extract for anemia is painful, and babies usually howl vigorously when they get one-but not Beverly; she didn't even whimper. Hospital doctors examined her more closely. They decided that she really is a "painless" baby suffering from "indifference to injury, of congenital origin"; she cries only when hungry or angry. It is a rare condition (first described ten years ago by Johns Hopkins Neurologist Frank R. Ford), probably due to a defect...
Sulfonamides may cause nausea, vomiting, cyanosis (skin turning blue because of lack of oxygen in the blood), mental confusion, anemia, damage to liver and kidneys-and, in some cases, death...
Their conclusion: lack of zinc (necessary for normal cell growth) probably accounts for some of the abnormal behavior of cells in leukemia. Their discovery may eventually rank in importance with the finding that pernicious anemia is caused in part by an iron deficiency in red blood cells, which can be corrected by liver extract. Perhaps a cure for leukemia may be found in some substance not yet discovered that will enable white cells to absorb more zinc...
Swamp fever (or equine infectious anemia) was almost unknown in New England until last spring. It may have been brought in by an infected horse shipped from Florida. The infection had been spread presumably by blood-sucking insects. Cases began to pop up at various New England tracks, chiefly at Rockingham...
Married. Carol Hohenzollern, 53, exiled King (Carol II) of Rumania; and Elena (Magda) Lupescu, 50, his mistress of 23 years; in an "in extremis" ceremony at her Rio de Janeiro bedside where she was thought to be dying of pernicious anemia (see FOREIGN NEWS...