Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a generation ago, anemia was both a common and a fashionable complaint. It was good for endless speculative chatter, because doctors understood little about it, and nearly every patient had his (or more often her) favorite patent nostrum. Last week, Salt Lake City's Dr. Maxwell Myer Wintrobe told a Manhattan audience of doctors how drastically the anemia story has changed in a mere three decades...
...doctors told him to retire: his high blood pressure might kill him any day. Dr. Cohn simply dosed himself with palliative drugs and kept on working. His first great success so far as medicine was concerned came in 1927 when he extracted from liver the substance that controls pernicious anemia. It meant that patients could take medicine, instead of having to eat a pound or more of liver every...
During a scientific career which spanned more than 30 years, Dr. Cohn aided in the development of liver extract for the treatment of pernicious anemia, serum albumin for use in cases of battlefield and accident shock, and several other medically important blood products. His work led directly to the recent discovery of gamma globulin as an immunizing agent against polio...
...internist. Using the name Howard Roberts Jr., Taft entered Manhattan's topnotch New York Hospital, right across the street from Memorial. Specialists from Memorial consulted with New York's staff. Taft received X-ray treatments which relieved the pain in his hip, and transfusions to combat anemia. To find out whether something more could be done, the doctors recommended an exploratory operation...
...three weeks, the enzyme content of his blood is checked each day, his blood pressure taken as often as every half-hour, and he may be dunked into a pool now and then to gauge the water content of his body. Some arthritis patients with a stubborn type of anemia will give blood which will be made radioactive before it is put back into their systems; thus the researchers can test a theory that the red blood cells are dying off faster than normal...