Word: bloodstreams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uric acid retained in the bloodstream is likely to form chalky, stony deposits in the joints and in the cartilage of the ears. Frequently first to suffer is the joint of the big toe, then ankles, knees, hands and wrists. Common symptoms: cramps, inflammation, fever, headache, neuralgia, together with hot, itching feet (known to ancients as "the lisping of the gout...
...their attitude is more optimistic. To them the disease which annually sets 6,000,000 U. S. victims gasping is a common form of allergy: a bodily sensitivity to certain foreign substances such as eggs, milk, wheat, horsehair, pollen grains, banana oil. Once these substances get into the bloodstream of sensitive people, there ensue such violent reactions as hives, vomiting, blinding headaches, and what Henry Ward Beecher lovingly called "irrepressible sternutation" (sneezing...
...Latest theory of the complicated workings of allergic reaction: An allergen enters the bloodstream. If there are specific antibodies already present in the blood, the allergen is "conquered" and no symptoms result. But if the body is taken unawares, and antibodies are resting in tissue cells, a terrific battle follows. The offending allergen may be "neutralized," but only with great damage to tissue cells. As the cells are torn, large quantities of the chemical histamine escape into the bloodstream, cause "certain organic reactions ... in the walls of the blood vessels and in the smooth muscles...
...once in a while, but last week Japan's nearly got an overdose. For three days it looked as if 113 members of the Foreign Office Staff-all but the Vice Minister, four bureau chiefs and a handful of clerks and translators-would pass out of the political bloodstream entirely...
Bacteriologist Pittman was not completely satisfied, urged that sulfapyridine be given "further trial." Her experiments had shown that "[sulfapyridine] did not prevent the bacteria from entering the bloodstream, but it apparently retarded their increase in the blood...