Word: anemia
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Helen Maysey was a sickly baby. She had a stubborn anemia that did not respond to treatment with iron and vitamins. By the time she was three, doctors found her spleen enlarged, decided that this versatile organ, which both makes and destroys blood cells, was overdoing the destructive part of its job. Surgeons took out her spleen. That gave only temporary relief, and Helen had to have repeated transfusions to keep her stock of red blood cells anywhere near normal. When she was ten, doctors figured that Helen had about two months to live. That was 17 years...
...damage at birth-notably brain hemorrhage and contusions during a difficult delivery, and oxygen starvation (which in its turn may have a multiplicity of causes). About 30% of cerebral palsy is caused, Dr. Perlstein believes, by the mother's illnesses during pregnancy (especially German measles, but also anemia and diabetes) and Rh incompatibility-though this last cause has fallen in frequency from 10% to less than 3%, now that doctors are paying closer attention to pregnant women's blood groups. Finally, 10% of cases result from injuries in childhood...
...never did. Instead, he shrewdly multiplied his fortune by investments (oil, real estate), spent hours avidly watching television. Last July, when he suddenly lost his oldtime pep, he dropped in at Stanford Lane Hospital in San Francisco for a checkup. The doctors first said it was anemia, then spotted leukemia. Mayer entered the U.C.L.A. Medical Center in September, had a series of blood transfusions. There last week, at 72, Louis B. Mayer died. Close by his bedside was his television screen, the only other force that had changed Hollywood as much as he himself had. Headlined the Hollywood Reporter...
...Stekel. In the 19203 they were followed by Otto Rank (who proved to be suffering from manic-depressive psychosis that had gone unsuspected in the inner circle of analysts), by Wilhelm Reich, and finally by the fawning Ferenczi, whose lifelong emotional troubles were compounded at the end by pernicious anemia and organic brain damage. Through it all, Freud held firmly to the line he had laid down: "We have only one aim and one loyalty-to psychoanalysis." When Stekel big-heartedly attempted a late reconciliation, Freud turned a stony face to him. And when Adler died, the unforgiving Freud...
...hand, it jabbed some good spiny cactus into the aspidistra drama of the English stage; on the other hand, it clangingly echoed a new generation's call to disorder in English life. And it had something more than the Zeitgeist or England's general theatrical anemia to recommend it; it had a man who could really write...