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What ails Britain's George VI? All public engagements would be canceled "over a period of some months." The official bulletins had been medically vague. But at week's end it was learned that the King suffers from a variation of Buerger's disease,* mostly affecting his right foot. Other more frightening names for it: presenile gangrene, thrombo-angiitis obliterans...
...cause of Buerger's disease is unknown. Many, but not all, patients are cigarette smokers (smoking constricts the small arteries). The King's doctors are reported to have ordered him to stop his heavy smoking. Most patients with Buerger's disease also have acute or chronic epidermophytosis (fungus diseases of the skin like washerwomen's itch or athlete's foot). The disease occurs most frequently between the ages of 20 and 45 (the King will be 53 Dec. 14). Doctors do not know why, but men victims outnumber women...
...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...