Word: anemia
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...have a little money eat spinach, cabbage, string beans, kohlrabi or turnips. Their diet is deficient not only in energy content, but in calcium (necessary for bones and teeth), protein (essential for tissues), vitamins A, C and D. Hence many suffer from osteomalacia (softening of the bones), scurvy, anemia, severe rickets, infantile tetany (convulsions), horny skin, tuberculosis. Unlike the U.S., North China has little vitamin B deficiency, for the roughly milled flours are rich in vitamin B elements...
...quite accurate. For specific vitamins do not invariably cure specific diseases; they all work together. Experience has shown that in groups of people deprived of all vitamins for a long period of time, various individuals develop different deficiency diseases. Some do not even have scurvy or pellagra; they develop anemia instead-a disease not ordinarily believed related to vitamin deficiency...
...Physical exhaustion may suddenly bring on mild anxiety neuroses in people with long-standing ailments. For instance, a man with anemia who fought fires all night was too tired to sleep. He was quiet, controlled, somewhat despondent. At a shelter he was given rest, food and drink. Immediately he began to tremble, broke out in a cold sweat, groaned and paced the floor...
Only four doctors have been considered eminent enough to win this privilege: Dr. Bela Schick, inventor of the Schick test for diphtheria immunity (not to be confused with Jacob Schick, inventor of the Schick razor); Nobelman George Hoyt Whipple, co-discoverer of the liver treatment for anemia; Dr. Manfred Sakel, originator of the insulin shock treatment for schizophrenia; Dr. Benjamin Philp Watson, head of Columbia's Sloane Hospital for Women...
Sulfathiazole is "the most important sulfonamide drug in use at present." It is a powerful weapon against pneumonia, staphylococcic infections and a great range of streptococcic infections. Resultant anemia and cyanosis are "less marked" than with the use of sulfanilamide. But sulfathiazole has other drawbacks: 1) it causes fever, skin rash, inflammation of the eyes more severely than other sulfa drugs; 2) it must be used for a relatively longer period of time, thus increasing danger of complications...