Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White blood cells, policemen of the body, inexplicably multiply and crowd out of the arterial highways vitally necessary red service cells. Leucemia always makes prolonged news for it kills inexorably, a white death which occasionally relaxes, but never releases its hold. There are three main kinds of leucemia: 1) chronic myelogenous leucemia; 2) chronic lymphatic leucemia; 3) acute leucemia. In the chronic myelogenous type the marrow, which produces blood cells, is most affected. Certain white blood cells are produced in exorbitant numbers. They hamper the production of red blood cells and choke off those which manage to get into...
...fanatic but a scholarly enthusiast. Though he is a preacher of simplified language, he is capable of horrendous complexities, as when he writes about James Joyce's Work in Progress as: "intensive, compressive, reverberative infixation . . . oneiric logorrhoea, polymathic, polyperverse . . . clangorous calembour . . . kaleidoscopic recamera . . . logophilous Birth-trauma . . chronic serial extension
...Bland states that there are three main sociological reasons for the backwardness of China in democratic unity: "The ills that flesh is heir to in China, the chronic destitution, disease, and discontent are directly due to the social system and religious beliefs which make procreative recklessness a duty; the only thing which can undermine this social system is a strong central government; thus a democracy is an impossibility and would lead only to rampant dissension and partition...
...evidence of chemical warfare. A majority of the wounds were through-and-through bullet wounds with small sharply defined point of entrance and large jagged exit. The wounds were invariably infected, many teeming with maggots. ... As noted in the World War, and in keeping with the maggot therapy for chronic osteomyelitis, the wounds when cleared of maggots presented healthy granulations and were certainly none the worse for the infestation. . . . "The weather in Manchuria was severely cold and exposures following wounds were often severe and prolonged. Gratifying salvage of apparently hopeless gangrenous forearms, hands, ankles, and feet rewarded expectant conservative nursing...
...word nudism does not appear in my paper. I know nothing about nudism. Yet there is a modern tendency to bold and repeated exposure of the body to wind, and especially to sunlight, which, carried to excess, produces some cancers of the skin directly and causes chronic changes in the skin of many subjects which eventually lead to cancer of the skin. . . . Every physician knows that farmers and seamen are especially prone to develop skin cancer...