Word: anemia
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...Minot was the first man to try liver as a cure for pernicious anemia. His researches began in 1918, but it was not until 1925 that he discovered the value of liver in treatment of the deadly disease. At this time he appointed Dr. William P. Murphy '20, Instructor in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School as his assistant. Dr. Murphy had been carrying on similar studies as to the treatment of the same disease. Three year's later, the two men were able to announce to the world that pernicious anemia had at last been conquered...
...Cunningham, 54, originally from Kansas City, believes that organisms which live only in the absence of oxygen cause certain forms of diabetes, pernicious anemia, and cancer. To him, the logical treatment is to saturate the patient with oxygen under pressure, which theoretically permeates to the morbid organisms and kills them. The Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association, after due consideration, has denounced this theory of therapy as so much quackery. Nevertheless, Henry Holiday Timken, reclusive roller-bearing tycoon, had sufficient faith in Dr. Cunningham's ideas to give him $1,000,000 to construct his tank hospital...
Last week a frail and broken woman lay in a remote sanatorium in the French Alps under the shadow of Mt. Blanc. A racking cough had settled in her chest. Pernicious anemia was in her blood. Perhaps long exposure to the deadly element she and her husband had discovered was taking its toll. But Marie Curie's mind was clear and she was ready to die. She had come far since her birth in Poland 66 years ago. In Warsaw her father had been a physics professor, her mother principal of a girls' school. Their daughter Marie...
Died. Marie Sklodowska Curie. 66, co-discoverer of radium; of a lung ailment and pernicious anemia; near Sallanches, France...
...often fatal intestinal ailment which produces diarrhea, mouth ulcers, anemia, great loss of weight...