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...Israeli case history began in 1955, when widowed Bluma Bursi, now 78, developed a swelling on her hip that grew as big as a grapefruit. Laboratory pathologists in Tel Aviv examined the lump after it was removed and declared the growth malignant-a fat-cell cancer. After an apparent recurrence, Bluma Bursi's leg was amputated in 1960. Late last year, she developed severe pain, an abdominal swelling of a type often caused by cancer, along with a suspicious lump, and coughed up blood. Morphine lost its power to ease her pain; doctors gave her only ten days...
...Rapoport stopped the thalidomide in April, when he learned of its undesirable effects, which sometimes include a generalized neuritis, regardless of the sex and age of the patient. But last week Bluma Bursi was pink-cheeked and hearty. Said her daughter: "If she had her leg, she'd be able to do housework...
...Bluma Berman's parents had been killed in Poland and her husband had died a prisoner. Bluma had told a U.S. soldier, while in an UNRRA shelter for displaced persons, that she believed she still had an uncle and aunt, Max and Jenne Grossman, living somewhere in New York. The soldier wrote to his sister in Pennsylvania, the sister wrote to Travelers' Aid in New York. Travelers' Aid looked up every Grossman in the New York phone book. When Bluma stepped off the boat, Max and Jenne Grossman were on the pier...
...invitation, the first feature of the evening's entertainment was a concert of some length and of a good deal of excellence. What especially pleased me in this concert was a selection by Mr. T. Adamowski, violinist, and the singing of Heine's short poem, "Du bist will eine Bluma," by the tenor, Mr. T. C. Bartlett, to music by Liszt...
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