Word: bloode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopes for peace in Palestine centered largely on two men of royal blood who hurried by plane through the Middle East airlanes last week. One was earnest, Godfearing Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte; the other, mercurial King Abdullah of Transjordan, who was trying to unite the Arab world behind him to treat with-or fight-the Jews of Palestine...
...ulcers are another man's high blood pressure. Ever since Hippocrates, doctors have believed that certain kinds of people lean toward certain kinds of diseases. Many a wild guess has been made about body types (e.g., tall, thin people get tuberculosis; short, fat ones get apoplexy). Last week two Manhattan doctors came out with a new formula, to help predict every man's psychosomatic risks...
...High Blood Pressure. Victims are prematurely old mentally, look to the future with anxiety, feel economic or social insecurity, "live intensely and desperately" to achieve their aims, are apt to be intolerant. They have no sense of make-believe, do not enjoy holidays. Since they exercise little and drink too much, they are likely to be overweight...
Double Trouble. If a patient has two kinds of psychosomatic disease, it may be because he has overlapping personalities, or because one disease sets the other one in motion. Examples: high blood pressure often follows hyperthyroidism, hyperthyroidism often follows stomach ulcers; high blood pressure may follow or precede stomach ulcers...
...atomic-energy by-product (radioactive sodium) is being used to study blood circulation. Drs. Myron Prinzmetal and Eliot Corday of Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital inject the sodium into a patient's veins, place a Geiger counter over the heart, record the appearance of the tagged blood on a special machine. Their method, they reported, spots enlarged hearts sooner than any other...