Word: buerger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rudolph Widmann. The detail that had roused the medical profession was that the treatment seemed to be something more than a possible cure for gangrene. It also opened the door to a brand-new attack on the whole range of such blood-vessel disorders as coronary thrombosis, angina pectoris, Buerger's disease, high blood pressure...
That was the big discovery. Injections of the two substances every few hours in patients with gangrene not only stopped pain. By improving circulation, the shots also produced a surprising regeneration of the dying tissues. Every one of eleven patients suffering from various "peripheral vascular diseases" (gangrene, Buerger's, etc.), has responded to the treatment...
Blood Accelerator. There was a small ray of hope for victims of Buerger's disease, painful, incurable ailment caused by blood-vessel constriction that impedes circulation to the legs and feet. University of Michigan physicians reported that a nerve-blocking injection of tetraethyl ammonium dilates blood vessels, relieves Buerger's disease (as well as certain other disorders resulting from blocked circulation). The drug does not cure, but it may stop pain for as long as six months...
Whiskey for Arteries. In artery ailments, such as arteriosclerosis or Buerger's disease, patients are often attacked by muscular weakness so severe that their legs buckle under them. To tone up the muscles, doctors try to send a large supply of blood to the legs. For this they give drugs to expand the blood vessels, injections of salt solution, or even cut certain tracts in the sympathetic nervous system. As a check on the blood supply they take the temperature of the skin: if the temperature rises, they assume that the leg is getting a large supply of blood...