Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Ida Muia Donnelly was born 24 years ago in Montrose, Pa., she had two strikes against her: from both mother & father (who were first cousins), she had a heritage of Mediterranean anemia, in which the red blood cells are abnormally thin. Ida had a doubly severe case of the disease, which afflicts (generally mildly) many Italians, Greeks, Syrians and Armenians, and their U.S.-born offspring...
Mediterranean anemia cannot be cured by iron treatments or removal of the spleen; it can only be relieved by transfusions of blood containing husky red cells. With good care and many transfusions, Ida grew up into a vivacious, healthy-looking girl. But when she married Raymond Donnelly, who works at a country club, doctors told her that she should never bear a baby...
...doctors can cure hookworm anemia, suppress malaria and relieve leprosy. But most of the sick in Alamadi need food more than medicine. It would take much more than a weekly bus to cure that...
...operation was performed without mishap. But convalescence was stormy and the wound took ten weeks to heal, despite special care in closing it with buried stitches. With the aid of blood transfusions, the patient recovered, and her anemia passed. She has stayed well for six months...
Last year, exhibitors cured the box-office anemia of 20th Century-Fox's A Ticket to Tomahawk by changing the title to The Sheriff's Daughter. Last week, despite good reviews, the same studio's U.S.S. Teakettle proved surprisingly anemic in its first bookings. The company decided to yank the movie out of release, give it the same kind of tonic. New title: You're In the Navy...