Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Magda Lupescu fell ill of pernicious anemia. She looked frail and joked about how easily she grew tired...
...first discovered in rhesus monkeys) is a mysterious, hereditary component of red blood cells. Rh positive and Rh negative cells are sometimes incompatible; if Rh cells have been sensitized to the Rh factor, mixing them results in antibodies which either break down the Rh positive cells (causing anemia and jaundice) or produce clots (blocking circulation...
Young Gene Carter takes firm issue with last month's 70-page report of the independent Committee for Cooperative Field Research, which suggests that the remedy for rural Iowa's religious anemia is to reduce the number of churches. It seems to him that there are not too many churches but too few ministers. Says he: "I've never seen an area where the church was closed and the whole congregation goes elsewhere. A lot of the people just quit going to church...
...quiet, respectful Beatrix accepted the proposal, stuck to her guns in the worst family battle of her life. Then, with victory came tragedy: just before the marriage day, Norman Warne died of pernicious anemia...
...uncertain: whether folic acid also halts the nerve degeneration common in anemia...