Word: anemia
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Three years ago George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy, Harvard medical men, discovered that liver eaten regularly and in great quantities overcame pernicious anemia. Later their colleague Edwin Joseph Cohn developed an extract to replace bulk liver. To Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis manufacturing druggists, the Harvard men gave the commercial monopoly because methods of manufacture were too delicate for novices to handle. Last year other pharmaceutical houses, in the U. S. and abroad, studied the preparations under Harvard instruction. So last week the Harvard Committee on pernicious anemia announced that good liver extracts were available almost everywhere, but that...
Digestive Acids. Too much acid in the digestive tract causes an anemia resembling pernicious anemia but not so difficult to treat.?Battle Creek's W. N. Boldyreff...
...assistant to Mrs. Miriam Amanda Ferguson, former Governor of Texas, Author Davis forgets whatever she may have learned of female politicians. Her novel contains the highly artificial story of a woman governor who sacrificed her politics for her man. Obvious, banal, stupid, didactic, the Davis style has all the anemia of a lady's home journal...
...Rockefeller Institute and the New York Health Department, the hard work of his hospital doctors, all were useless. Autopsists sought for the rare Asian microbe of kala-azar (tropical black fever) supposed to have killed him. But no organism was found. The verdict: he died of an unusual anemia, called idiopathic aplastic (self-forming, non-tissue-building...
...peptic ulcer, meat digestion is not impaired so far as concerns the stomach's ability to secrete gastric juices. If a patient fails to secrete the juices on both meat and bread diets, that is serious. Such failure is a sign of cancer of the stomach, of pernicious anemia, of delayed healing in lobar pneumonia and inflammation of the gall bladder...