Word: bluma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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