Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...positive child, there is a 1-in-30 chance that the child's blood may create a dangerous reaction in the mother's blood -with the result that the child, if it lives to be born, will have a dangerous disease called erythroblastosis fetalis, character ized by anemia and jaundice...
...whom many Britons call "our best general since Marlborough" died (of anemia) last week in the U.S. Army's Walter Reed Hospital. Promptly Franklin Roosevelt awarded a posthumous Distinguished Service Medal. John Dill's body was borne across the Potomac to Arlington Cemetery, to lie among the U.S.'s military great...
...difficult to persuade many of these cases to eat. . . . Many complained of cough and produced a white frothy sputum which I took to be due to edema of the lungs. . . . The heart was sometimes moderately enlarged and the heart sounds diminished in volume. . . . A more or less severe secondary anemia was invariably present. . . . Amenorrhea and sterility were extremely common...
Point of No Return. Since mid-1942, when the Raj last imprisoned the Mahatma, both he and his political instrument, the All-India National Congress, had declined in power. Malaria, amoebic dysentery, low blood pressure, hookworm, anemia, weak heart & kidneys had sapped his body. His wife had died. All the leading members of the Congress Working Committee had been jailed since they voted an ultimatum to Great Britain to leave India to the Indians immediately or face mass civil disobedience (Gandhi's famed, fateful "Quit India" resolution...
...Automat vegetables are not overcooked). But Dr. Siegler cites "instances of conception with no therapy directed actually at the reproductive system but following such practices as physical and mental relaxation, separate vacations for husband and wife . . . removal of foci of infection in sinuses, tonsils, and digestive system, correction of anemia...