Word: anemia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Anemia or a deficiency of red corpuscles in the blood stream, according to such scrupulous newsorgans as the New York Times last week afflicts the Right Honorable Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, who looks exactly like beef-eating, red-blooded John Bull...
...carbon compounds (alcohol, Jamaica ginger, carbon monoxide, ether). Toxins may be generated, among other ailments, by childbed fever or diabetes. Neuritis may be the result of infections like diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever, measles, rheumatism, mumps, gonorrhea, smallpox, pneumonia, blood poisoning, malaria, tuberculosis, syphilis. It may be due to chronic anemia, senility, cancer, arterial disease...
...choke them. To alleviate colds Dr. Hamburger advises rest in bed and a simple prescription equivalent of which is an aspirin tablet with a cup of weak coffee every four hours and a glass of water in between.* Nonetheless, he concludes: "More can be done specifically for pernicious anemia than for a cold in the head...
...plant hormones, including one which causes roots to sprout from any place on the stem if rubbed with the hormonal preparation. Dr. William Bosworth Castle, 38, associate professor of Harvard's School of Medicine; the Procter Award of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science: for showing that pernicious anemia may be due to inefficient digestive juices. Isaiah Bowman, 57, president of Johns Hopkins University; the Henry Grier Bryant Gold Medal of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia: for being "scholarly and original in research, philosophical in his thinking, and concerned with the influence of geography on institutions and on society...
Altogether different was the simultaneous appearance four blocks away of Dean George Koyt Whipple of the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, winner of a Nobel Prize for discovering the value of liver diet in overcoming pernicious anemia (TIME. Nov. 5, 1934). Important doctors completely filled Mount Sinai Hospital's auditorium, listened decorously while Dr. Whipple, his throat raw with a cold, described how blood is formed and regenerated within the body. A significant new fact: infections do not prevent the formation of hemoglobin which the body needs to recover from disease, but. do prevent the release...