Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the Russian frontier to the Channel, there are today 20 millions of children . . . badly undernourished . . . steadily developing tuberculosis, rickets, anemia and other diseases of subnormal feeding. Unless they are better fed many will die and others . . . will furnish more malevolents. . . . The responsibility rests heavily upon the world...
...Death after six weeks from anemia caused by the rays' destruction of tissues which form red blood cells...
Those who were dosed the longest and could stand the largest doses improved the most. (One trouble with Promin: treatment sometimes has to stop because it causes anemia.) Only two patients got worse in spite of treatment, and their cases were very advanced. The Leprosarium doctors think improvement under Promin is "definite." The next step is to try out the newer, better TB drugs-diasone and streptomycin...
...doctors had good reason to believe that, like 85% of humanity, their patient's baby would have blood containing the mysterious factor Rh in positive form (TIME, Nov. 27). Such infants, cradled in the womb of a mother whose Rh factor is negative, occasionally develop a fatal anemia known as Erythroblastosis fetalis. The Solihull mother had already lost three babies for that reason...
...trying out a queer one. The idea: to cure people with opposite ailments by having them exchange some blood. They have experimented with the following "antagonistic" conditions: high and low blood pressure, overactive and underactive thyroid conditions, leukemia (overproduction of white blood cells) and shortage of white cells, pernicious anemia and overproduction of red cells, lack of menstruation and menstrual hemorrhage...