Word: anemia
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...doctors had good reason to believe that, like 85% of humanity, their patient's baby would have blood containing the mysterious factor Rh in positive form (TIME, Nov. 27). Such infants, cradled in the womb of a mother whose Rh factor is negative, occasionally develop a fatal anemia known as Erythroblastosis fetalis. The Solihull mother had already lost three babies for that reason...
...trying out a queer one. The idea: to cure people with opposite ailments by having them exchange some blood. They have experimented with the following "antagonistic" conditions: high and low blood pressure, overactive and underactive thyroid conditions, leukemia (overproduction of white blood cells) and shortage of white cells, pernicious anemia and overproduction of red cells, lack of menstruation and menstrual hemorrhage...
...positive child, there is a 1-in-30 chance that the child's blood may create a dangerous reaction in the mother's blood -with the result that the child, if it lives to be born, will have a dangerous disease called erythroblastosis fetalis, character ized by anemia and jaundice...
...whom many Britons call "our best general since Marlborough" died (of anemia) last week in the U.S. Army's Walter Reed Hospital. Promptly Franklin Roosevelt awarded a posthumous Distinguished Service Medal. John Dill's body was borne across the Potomac to Arlington Cemetery, to lie among the U.S.'s military great...
...difficult to persuade many of these cases to eat. . . . Many complained of cough and produced a white frothy sputum which I took to be due to edema of the lungs. . . . The heart was sometimes moderately enlarged and the heart sounds diminished in volume. . . . A more or less severe secondary anemia was invariably present. . . . Amenorrhea and sterility were extremely common...