Word: anemia
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...more than a year rumors circulated that Evita suffered from anemia, but the terrific pace of her public life belied the reports. A fortnight ago doctors announced that she was in bed with influenza. She was so ill on the day of the revolt that she was given a blood transfusion and not told of the uprising until it was over. Then she insisted on speaking over the radio from her sickroom at the presidential residence...
...descamisados for standing by the President, and asked God to give back "the health I've lost." It was the voice of a different woman-weak, strained, husky. Afterward an announcer, weeping, read a hastily composed communique stating that Senora Perón was suffering from advanced anemia. At week's end she was given more transfusions. Her recovery, it was announced, "will take a long time...
When Ida Muia Donnelly was born 24 years ago in Montrose, Pa., she had two strikes against her: from both mother & father (who were first cousins), she had a heritage of Mediterranean anemia, in which the red blood cells are abnormally thin. Ida had a doubly severe case of the disease, which afflicts (generally mildly) many Italians, Greeks, Syrians and Armenians, and their U.S.-born offspring...
Mediterranean anemia cannot be cured by iron treatments or removal of the spleen; it can only be relieved by transfusions of blood containing husky red cells. With good care and many transfusions, Ida grew up into a vivacious, healthy-looking girl. But when she married Raymond Donnelly, who works at a country club, doctors told her that she should never bear a baby...
...studies of Mediterranean anemia, Dr. Nittis has never known a victim with so severe a case as Ida Donnelly's to survive for 24 years, let alone carry a child full term. Now she has enough blood credits to last her for years. And 7¼-lb. Raymond Edwin John Donnelly Jr. can thank his father for the fact that his blood seems free of the taint...