Word: buerger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While doctors are still not sure that smoking ever causes heart disease, they have seen a number of cases, with symptoms like angina pectoris, that probably resulted from smoking. The strongest cause & effect evidence is in thrombo-angiitis obliterans ("Buerger's disease," from which the late King George VI suffered). This "occurs most frequently among smokers and is severer among those persons who smoke excessively than among those who smoke little...
British, and Hertzog needed a hatchetman to denounce this "treachery." Malan quit his pulpit to become editor in chief of Cape Town's Die Buerger, an anti-Semitic daily. The title of his first editorial: "For the Glory...
...right leg and foot. This was caused by a narrowing of the arteries: not enough blood was getting through, the foot was often extremely cold, and there was danger of gangrene. The King's doctors decided that their patient was a victim of thromboangiitis obliterans, also called Buerger's disease.* They found, too, that all the King's arteries were hardening beyond his years...
...After Leo Buerger, a Vienna-born surgeon, who practiced in Manhattan and who described the disease...