Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children-René, 2, and ten-month-old Robbie-and marched into the Miami tax collector's office to demand return of her husband's paycheck. Says she: "I told them Robbie had just got out of the hospital, where he was treated for acute anemia, and we needed the money for medicine. They wouldn't listen. They're rather coldhearted and impersonal down there." But Margaret Lockwood had a plan of action: she planted herself in a chair and announced she would stay right there until the paycheck was returned...
...Many physicians, finding nothing organically wrong, tell such mothers: "It's all in your mind." That only increases their worries and frustrations. Others, said Dr. Lovshin, "get out their pills and potions and injections" and treat the women for complaints of the doctors' own imagining-anemia, low blood pressure, low metabolism. Or, "we tell them they are not eating right, give them vitamins, and since no normal, active mother has any time to eat right, this catches them all." Some doctors become obsessed with a few pounds' overweight, or fancied excesses in coffee drinking or smoking...
...soon her father, the Rev. Lorenda R. Walker, took a pastorate in Columbus. The trip to Ohio in a model A Ford was rough, and Marclan came down with pneumonia. At Columbus' Children's Hospital, doctors found something worse: she had sickle-cell anemia. That was early in 1938. It was two years before she went home from the hospital...
Sickle-cell anemia is so-called because, in its victims, many red blood cells change from their normal roughly spherical shape to that of a thin sickle. It is virtually confined to Negroes. The sickling trait is transmitted by a gene-just how is not certain. Best estimates are that 9% of U.S. Negroes (or 1,500,000) carry the gene but rarely need treatment, while perhaps 30,000, who have inherited the gene from both parents, have the full-blown disease...
...parents less upset about the nation's educational anemia than the educators themselves? Such is the impression left by a Gallup poll of 3,000 parents and 1,100 high school principals...