Word: anemia
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...flew home last week for a checkup at Manhattan's Doctors Hospital. Said her physician: "Mrs. Luce is suffering from a chronic enteritis, which appears to be related to an infection of the liver which she had while abroad. She has, as well, a moderately severe iron-deficiency anemia, probably due to the same cause. She received one transfusion . . . and will require others. I have advised the ambassador not to return to her post for about two months. At that time I would anticipate complete recovery...
...watched Jo Ellen get sicker and paler. Dr. Lahey remembered experiments in which rats fed nothing but milk developed anemia, which yielded only when copper as well as iron was added to their diet. He knew of no such case in human babies, but Dr. Lahey sent a sample of Jo Ellen's blood serum to Salt Lake City to be tested. Last Thanksgiving Eve, Mrs. Ellen Koenig phoned her husband from the hospital to say: "They're releasing Jo Ellen undiagnosed" (meaning incurable, in this case). At the same moment Dr. Lahey's phone was jangling...
MacArthur was a best friend of everybody he knew, and his camaraderie and conviviality knew no bounds. But his heart and kidneys did. One day last week he checked into a Manhattan hospital. He suffered from nephritis, plus severe anemia. Four days later he had an internal hemorrhage, died at 60. The Front Page, of course, provided a fine epitaph: "I'm no stuffed shirt writing peanut ads. God damn it-I'm a newspaperman...
...have appeared, giving further proof of an Advocate renaissance. A symbol of this growth and energy is its new building, being built on a combination of tradition (the purses of alumni) and enterprise (undergraduate wheedling). The building may well represent the end of a period of prolonged post-war anemia. Hopefully, the Advocate's reawakened spirits will further the arts as much as conviviality
Difficulty in breathing (dyspnea) is one of the most disturbing symptoms, and may indicate serious disease, e.g., asthma, pneumonia, congestive heart failure, anemia. Morphine provides quick relief, but may be dangerous. Other remedies, depending on the cause: adrenaline, blood transfusions, oxygen, removing obstructions from the windpipe...