Word: buerger
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...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...
Britain's King George, footloose once more after his long bout with a form of Buerger's disease (TIME, Dec. 6 et seq.), felt fit enough to take to the dance floor at a party at Londonderry House, and play host to 7,000 guests at a garden party at Buckingham Palace. In a busy week, he also found time to lend his approval to the engagement of his nephew, 26-year-old George Henry Hubert Lascelles, seventh Earl of Harewood, to dark-haired, Austrian-born Pianist Marion Stein, 22. Young Harewood, opera critic for the New Statesman...
...King could be cured by psychological medicine. It is my opinion that he could be cured in no other way. This does not mean, I hasten to add, that there is anything mentally wrong (in the ordinary sense) with a victim of Buerger's disease. Indeed, the disease is an expression of the repression of the emotional elements below the mental level...
...Named for the late Dr. Leo Buerger, a Vienna-born Manhattan surgeon who first fully described the disease...