Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors George H. Whipple, George R. Minot and William P. Murphy, who got the Nobel Prize in 1934 for their liver cure for anemia, did not invent the cure (it was discovered some 20 years earlier by two Italians, Pietro Castellino and Alfonso Pirera...
...whole blood, would be good for. Last winter he began supplying Detroit hospitals with batches of specially processed red corpuscles for experimental transfusions (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week Philadelphia Naval Hospital doctors, who had the same idea, reported that red-cell transfusions had proved spectacularly successful in treating anemia...
...Navy doctors administered 72 red-cell transfusions to 48 anemic patients. All but four showed definite improvement. Only two had bad reactions (they became feverish). One patient, apparently dying of pernicious anemia, was given five red-cell transfusions; his red-cell blood count improved from 650,000 to 3,130,000, his hemoglobin from 2 to 11 gm. per 100 c.c., in a month he was able to go home...
Toxic reactions from the drugs are frequent-a survey of sulfas taken internally shows that some toxic reaction occurred in 29.8% of sulfapyridine cases, 11.8% of sulfathiazole and 7.7% of sulfadiazine. Most of these reactions are not dangerous, merely a nuisance (e.g., nausea, vomiting, dizziness, mild anemia, lack of appetite, tingling sensation), and do not interrupt treatment. But some rare reactions may prove fatal unless caught early. Even the less toxic sulfa derivatives can cause trouble: three cases at Johns Hopkins Hospital suffered not only kidney damage but brain injury from sulfathiazole; two majors in the Army Medical Corps last...
...Unlike sulfa drugs, penicillin has not yet shown any harmful effects. A patient's appetite often increases; his anemia may improve...