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...Mountain spotted fever, brucellosis (undulant fever), typhus and some kinds of pneumonia, it had been given to about 8,000,000 patients since it was first marketed in 1949. Then it was found (TIME, July 14) that some patients who had been getting the drug had died of aplastic anemia (in which the bone marrow is unable to do its normal job of making red and white blood cells...
...whole field of vitamins, Merck's greatest triumph, by far, is its most recent. Its chemists extracted the elusive anti-anemia factor from liver in pure form: the ruby-colored crystals of vitamin B12, essential to growth and the most powerful medicinal substance known in nature. One thirty-millionth of an ounce a day is enough for a healthy man's blood-making factory; one three-millionth checks pernicious anemia...
Though Bob can dash 100 meters in 0:10.7 (Olympic record: 0:10.3), a childhood case of anemia still leaves him short of the endurance required to run the metric mile. It is just about his only athletic shortcoming. He is a one-man track team, capable of winning the majority of U.S. college track meets singlehanded. His best official discus throw, 173 ft. 4 in., is 2 in. better than the Olympic record...
...A.M.A. Journal, three groups of doctors reported fatal cases (eight in all) of aplastic anemia following treatment with the antibiotic Chloromycetin. Editorially, the Journal warned against use of the drug for minor ills, wondered whether it might have to be limited to such serious complaints as typhoid. The Food & Drug Administration started checking all new cases of aplastic anemia to see whether Chloromycetin had been used...
Died. Brownlee Owen Currey, 51, investment banker and president of Equitable Securities Corp.; of anemia; in Nashville, Tenn. Starting as a bank clerk while a Vanderbilt undergraduate, Currey wound up as a transit king (American Express Co.), publisher (Southern Agriculturist, Farm and Ranch), city bus-system czar (in Akron, Nashville, Richmond...