Word: anemia
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...notably on the subject of manure; his notion was that the greatness of Elizabethan Eng land was due to the widespread use of sheep droppings in producing an organically based diet and thus a sound society. But more than the shortage of sheep droppings is needed to explain the anemia of English society between the general strike of 1926 and World War II, and the madcap Mitford story charts some of the more alarming symptoms of a class in deep trouble with history and itself...
...Theory Proved. Against all odds, young Cousteau became a powerful swimmer. For six years he suffered from chronic enteritis; in his early teens he contracted anemia, and doctors advised him to avoid all strenuous activity. He also developed a technical flair that produced a three-foot, battery-powered automobile and home movies at the age of 13. But studies were a bore until Jacques, a sophomore in a French lycée, found a novel use for his school. Demonstrating his theory that a strongly thrown stone makes only a small hole in glass, he broke 17 of the building...
Pernicious anemia...
...children-René, 2, and ten-month-old Robbie-and marched into the Miami tax collector's office to demand return of her husband's paycheck. Says she: "I told them Robbie had just got out of the hospital, where he was treated for acute anemia, and we needed the money for medicine. They wouldn't listen. They're rather coldhearted and impersonal down there." But Margaret Lockwood had a plan of action: she planted herself in a chair and announced she would stay right there until the paycheck was returned...
...Many physicians, finding nothing organically wrong, tell such mothers: "It's all in your mind." That only increases their worries and frustrations. Others, said Dr. Lovshin, "get out their pills and potions and injections" and treat the women for complaints of the doctors' own imagining-anemia, low blood pressure, low metabolism. Or, "we tell them they are not eating right, give them vitamins, and since no normal, active mother has any time to eat right, this catches them all." Some doctors become obsessed with a few pounds' overweight, or fancied excesses in coffee drinking or smoking...