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...certain sedatives and painkillers.) A deficiency of white blood cells may also be caused by disease of the bone marrow, where most of them are produced. This form of blood disease, known as agranulocytosis or leukopenia, leaves the body at the mercy of any bacteria which may enter the bloodstream. For the white cells, which move about like amebae, are the body's shock troops; they gobble up invading bacteria, produce antidotes which neutralize their toxins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Killers of Poison | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...best drug to cure dread staphylococcus bloodstream infections is sulfathiazole, a sulfanilamide relative which came out last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dangerous Drug | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...Florida with a terrible stronghold where Havana's feeble old Morro Castle now stands, if this enemy also sat astraddle the Panama Canal and had bases at Trinidad, Jamaica and Tampico, U. S. citizens would probably be alarmed. But the Gulf Stream is not in the U. S. bloodstream. Although perhaps there should be, there is no U. S. tradition of responsibility for the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico comparable to the innate, hereditary British concern for a sea which is both smaller (see map) and much farther from home ground. The British know that, in Gibraltar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Battle of the Mediterranean | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...Melvin H. Knisely of the University of Chicago (on loan to the University of Tennessee) has taken colored movies of the Battle of Malaria. This week, at the Louisville meeting of the Southern Medical Association, Dr. Knisely showed his movies-the first ever taken of disease in a living bloodstream. For his stars Dr. Knisely had chosen five malarial monkeys. He anesthetized them, exposed their abdominal cavities. Through the microscope's eyepiece he photographed the changes in the tiny blood vessels on the abdominal lining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Malaria Movies | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Malaria is caused by an amebalike parasite of the genus Plasmodium. The parasite, which enters man's bloodstream through a mosquito bite, often destroys over a million red blood corpuscles per cubic millimetre in one bout of malaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Malaria Movies | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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