Word: anemia
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...salts in water; 2) to expose water to radium emanation. Doctors thought that they had evidence that waters so treated would cure chronic arthritis, gout, neuritis, high blood pressure. The Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association soon found that quacks were selling the waters as cures for "anemia, leukemia, boils, blackheads and pimples." The A. M. A. Council on Pharmacy & Chemistry withdrew approval of devices purporting to make waters radioactive...
Addisin. Dried hog stomachs are good for pernicious anemia. Last week Dr. Roger Sylvester Morris & Associates of the University of Cincinnati reported that the normal gastric juices of human beings contain "a specific hematopoietic hormone." They are seeking the same "hormone" in hogs, dogs, cows. For the "hormone" they proposed the name "addisin," after Thomas Addison (1793-1860), English physician who first described the illness called pernicious anemia...
Died. Chancellor John ("Chauncey") Olcott, 71, Irish tenor; after eleven years of pernicious anemia; in Monte Carlo. Introduced as a singer by the late R. M. Hooley, he played his first dramatic role as a Spanish youth in Pepita or the Girl with the Glass Eyes at the old Union Square Theatre in Manhattan. After singing in Gilbert & Sullivan's Pinafore and Mikado, he studied in London, emerged the professional Irishman of "Mother Machree," "My Wild Irish Rose," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," "A Little Bit of Heaven...
Died. Florence Kelley, 72, famed humanitarian, ardent reformer of women's and children's labor laws, longtime secretary of the National Consumers' League, credited with having influenced the social policies of Alfred Emanuel Smith; of complications derived from anemia; in Philadelphia...
...months' stay in Porto Rico was very productive, promises to be one of the best things that ever happened to the populace there. He and Dr. Castle developed a thoroughgoing and inexpensive remedy for pernicious anemia. They are waiting for a professional journal to publish the details...