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...infant's blood develops, it sometimes causes the mother's blood to protect itself by forming "antibodies." The antibodies may become strong enough to invade the infant's bloodstream, killing it while still in the womb, or causing it to be born with abnormal blood, severe anemia and jaundice. Some such "erythroblastic" babies can be saved by blood transfusions soon after birth. Others are in such bad shape that nothing can be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baby Saver? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...that Faiman was selling a violet-colored, sweet-smelling paste called "Metro-Vac" containing a poisonous metallic salt. It induced abortions all right, just as many powerful drugs will. But the FDA considers the preparation one of the most dangerous in existence. If the active drug gets into the bloodstream (as it often does), the patient dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of the Violet Paste | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...feet the barometric pressure of the air is so low that it is about equal to the pressure inside the tiny blood vessels of the lungs. Under such conditions, there is not enough pressure to force the oxygen through the walls of the blood vessels and into the bloodstream. Explained Dr. Gelfan: "At the moment of decompression . . . the pressure of oxygen in the blood would be greater than in the lungs, and under such circumstances oxygen is actually lost by the blood to the lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: High Hazard | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Next step is to find a drug that will kill the parasites in the liver before they have time to erupt into the bloodstream. Dr. Shortt, 61, is willing to leave that detail to the chemists; he has an idea about African sleeping sickness that he wants to get right to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hiding Place | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...billions of bacteria from oxidation of those bodies; when he eats natural food-fruits, vegetables, whole grains and nuts; when he stops poisoning his body with alcohol, tobacco, "medicinal" drugs, manufactured carbonated drinks, and the gastronomical debris that passes for the full life in our day, then his bloodstream will be clean (and unsludged!), his body will be well and will function as the wonderful and fearful machine that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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