Word: anemia
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British and American flyers steadily pushed up the tempo of air combat over Europe. The Luftwaffe fighter command showed further symptoms of anemia. German air power was far from being knocked out, but its defenses could no longer be stretched out to cover all the vulnerable targets...
Years ago Dr. Lord had a hunch that there was more to lead poisoning than anemia, constipation, paralysis, loss of appetite, nervous disorders and deposits of lead in the long bones and along the gums. She noticed that some lead-poisoned babies differed psychologically from normal babies, patiently traced the effects in the school careers of 20 children, of whom 18 had been paint eaters...
...doctors George H. Whipple, George R. Minot and William P. Murphy, who got the Nobel Prize in 1934 for their liver cure for anemia, did not invent the cure (it was discovered some 20 years earlier by two Italians, Pietro Castellino and Alfonso Pirera...
...whole blood, would be good for. Last winter he began supplying Detroit hospitals with batches of specially processed red corpuscles for experimental transfusions (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week Philadelphia Naval Hospital doctors, who had the same idea, reported that red-cell transfusions had proved spectacularly successful in treating anemia...
...Navy doctors administered 72 red-cell transfusions to 48 anemic patients. All but four showed definite improvement. Only two had bad reactions (they became feverish). One patient, apparently dying of pernicious anemia, was given five red-cell transfusions; his red-cell blood count improved from 650,000 to 3,130,000, his hemoglobin from 2 to 11 gm. per 100 c.c., in a month he was able to go home...