Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have changed. Beset by foreign crises and committed to holding down spending at home, the President last week sent three domestic programs to Capitol Hill spelling out segments of his State of the Union speech. The President's oratory was as resonant as ever, but it masked an anemia of fresh ideas...
...only LSD, but also other, more familiar drugs may damage the human reproductive mechanism by causing breaks or other abnormalities in the chromosomes. A woman with such chromosomal dam age may have a spontaneous abortion or a stillbirth, or her child may be deformed, or develop a fatal anemia...
...damage and attempted self-repair, chromosomes are found with notched or broken arms, with translocations in which a detached arm of one chromo some gets stuck to another, and quadriradial or cross shapes. Such abnormalities appear in some cases of mongolism as well as in several severe forms of anemia that are accompanied by stunted growth and other physical defects, and in leukemia-to which victims of these disorders are especially susceptible...
...rage among Negro women-especially pregnant women-in many Northern-city slums. At D.C. General Hospital, Chief Obstetrician Dr. Earnest Lowe estimates that up to one-fourth of his patients are starch addicts. At Los Angeles County Hospital, three or four patients a week are diagnosed as having anemia apparently caused by starch binges...
Inexpensive Psychiatry. Argo representatives say that their laundry product contains nothing but cornstarch, a common thickener for soups and desserts. (They also say the starch-eating habit is "rare.") According to medical opinion, eating large amounts of laundry starch often brings on anemia by blocking the body's absorption of iron. Some doctors state that overeating laundry starch may also cause a deficiency of folic acid, which in pregnant women may lead to premature births or bleeding near delivery time...