Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also proves decisively that sprue (symptoms: diarrhea, mouth sores, lassitude) is a result of poor diet rather than a contagious disease, as some doctors have insisted. Folic acid, Spies announced earlier this year in the A.M.A. Journal, is also a remedy for all but a few rare kinds of anemia, causing red blood cells to pour into the blood in striking numbers...
...Spain to fight the fascists, but never got there. By the time she reached Paris her anemia was so serious that she had to go to bed. She whiled away a long convalescence by taking up art. Soon she became infatuated with the 1900s, combed the bookstalls for period prints to paint from. When the Nazis arrived and put her in Vittel concentration camp, she had achieved her first goal: simple escape pictures that almost anyone could escape into...
...mysterious Rh factor-in human blood had disturbed the serenity of many a mother-to-be. For if a wife's blood were Rh negative and a husband's Rh positive, their child might be stillborn, or born with erythroblastosis fetalis, characterized by anemia and jaundice...
...agree that 1,500 calories a day (the U.S. Army gets 3,600) is rock-bottom if the body is to perform even the primary function of keeping alive. Below 1,500 calories the body begins to feed on itself. Fat layers between muscles and around vital organs disappear. Anemia sets in. As resistance is lowered, the system falls easy prey to tuberculosis, dysentery, blood poisoning...
Although sanguine about the new cure, Shannon had two reservations: 1) its toxicity, which may cause anemia (probably only in dark-skinned races), has not yet been determined; 2) SN 13,276 has been tried out on less than a hundred patients, may pan out poorly in large-scale tests...