Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regularly introduced through mouth or lung in amounts greater than 1 mg. per day, lead can cause painful constipation, anemia, emaciation, loss of appetite, paralysis of the extremities, and ultimately death. And there is one more effect that interests Dr. Gilfillan most of all: enough lead can cause sterility in men, miscarriages and stillbirths among women. The Romans, says Gilfillan, especially the upper classes, knew little of lead's dangers, and they ingested more than enough of the metal to make trouble a certainty. Not only did Pliny the Elder counsel that "leaden and not bronze pots should...
...country's biggest road at one time or another, becoming a happy blend of operating and financial man, which let him maintain the Pennsy's unbroken record of dividend payments throughout the Depression while electrifying the line from New York to Harrisburg; of severe anemia; in Rosemont...
Malaria & Anemia. Newer, and far more mysterious, is a set of disease reactions that doctors describe as "pharmacogenetic." In these cases a drug may have no detectable harmful effect upon the vast majority of members of one ethnic group; yet because of a hereditary quirk, some individuals will be made gravely ill. Best example, said Dr. Moser, is the tendency-rare in the general U.S. population-to a blood-destroying anemia that can develop after taking aspirin or phenacetin (compounded together in the familiar APC tablets), some sulfonamides, and drugs for the relief of peptic ulcer...
...rife, and it has evolved into a common condition among the peoples of the Mediterranean basin and West African Negroes. But if these malaria survivors take to modern medicine, they often find their enzyme peculiarity a grave liability. Widely prescribed drugs may throw them into a devastating, life-threatening anemia...
...Levine was the second American physician to diagnose coronary thrombosis, which he described in his book. Clinical Heart Disease. The disease became widely known through his early clinical' teaching. Dr. Levine also helped diagnose pernicious anemia...