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...Book of the Month Club singles out Author Bowen because of her "news of the post-War generation" (it lacks red blood) and because of her exquisite style. The news has been reported before; the style, like the pension-hotel, is afflicted with anemia...
Died. Dr. Robert Abbe, 76, cancer specialist, friend and associate of Mme. Curie in Paris, first surgeon to introduce radium treatment in U. S.; in Manhattan; of aplastic anemia...
...until they had done more efficient missionary work in their own communities. Said an Episcopal official: "What's the matter? Spiritual inertia and laziness." Missionary C. H. Fenn, home on furlough, spoke in metaphor, saying that the church was infected with "fatty degeneration of the heart, pernicious anemia, cerebrospinal meningitis, cancer, and neuritis." Not the least cogent and discouraging explanation was supplied by the New York Herald-Tribune which mischievously remarked that only in times of physical distress were spiritual remedies at the height of their popularity, and that "Christian principles forbid them [the churches] to wish...
...Seyderhelm of Frankfurtam-Main, last week gave what all scientists enjoy giving and receiving- confirmation. In 1926 Drs. George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy of the Harvard Medical School reported that cooked liver helped the body increase the number of red blood corpuscles and gradually stopped pernicious anemia. U. S. doctors tested out the liver diet to their thorough satisfaction. Dr. Seyderhelm, thorough in his fashion, used the liver treatment on 105 patients, carefully studying all their reactions. That it was entirely satisfactory was the conclusion he published at Berlin last week, in the Klinische Wochenschrift...
...York Academy of Medicine a fortnight ago. Last week Dr. Weiss continued his efforts to find means of preventing the rustling. The disease so far is uncontrollable and almost always fatal. Last week, also, he was preparing a report on another discovery-that when a case of pernicious anemia improves, the sufferer's heart spontaneously returns to normal size. Heretofore doctors had known that anemic hearts grow large (apparently to drive the thinned blood more copiously through the body), but had never observed the lessening in size. Here again Dr. Weiss refused to believe his senses, and consulted with...