Word: anemia
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...From the Russian frontier to the Channel, there are today 20 millions of children . . . badly undernourished . . . steadily developing tuberculosis, rickets, anemia and other diseases of subnormal feeding. Unless they are better fed many will die and others . . . will furnish more malevolents. . . . The responsibility rests heavily upon the world...
...agree that 1,500 calories a day (the U.S. Army gets 3,600) is rock-bottom if the body is to perform even the primary function of keeping alive. Below 1,500 calories the body begins to feed on itself. Fat layers between muscles and around vital organs disappear. Anemia sets in. As resistance is lowered, the system falls easy prey to tuberculosis, dysentery, blood poisoning...
Although sanguine about the new cure, Shannon had two reservations: 1) its toxicity, which may cause anemia (probably only in dark-skinned races), has not yet been determined; 2) SN 13,276 has been tried out on less than a hundred patients, may pan out poorly in large-scale tests...
...Death after six weeks from anemia caused by the rays' destruction of tissues which form red blood cells...
Those who were dosed the longest and could stand the largest doses improved the most. (One trouble with Promin: treatment sometimes has to stop because it causes anemia.) Only two patients got worse in spite of treatment, and their cases were very advanced. The Leprosarium doctors think improvement under Promin is "definite." The next step is to try out the newer, better TB drugs-diasone and streptomycin...