Word: edema
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clinically the most conspicuous feature was the widespread edema which first appeared on the [tops] of the feet. These became more and more swollen until the skin was tightly stretched and assumed a peculiar bluish transparency. . . . Fissures appeared [which] were readily infected. . . . Farther up the leg, the edema distends the skin; and over the lower leg especially, this has often a high glaze. The whole limb up to the groin was often [swollen]. The external genitalia were early affected by the edema...
...face was often grossly edematous with the eyes completely closed. There was a strong tendency for the edema to shift with gravity. . . . Unnatural creases appeared [and the expression became] toneless and gloomy . . . quite repulsive. . .. . The loss of the normal silky luster of Chinese hair in someone who was seen before and after several months of slow starvation was quite striking...
...absence. . . . The abdominal distention was often associated with a small umbilical hernia . . . watery diarrhea and a tendency to pass food unaltered. It was difficult to persuade many of these cases to eat. . . . Many complained of cough and produced a white frothy sputum which I took to be due to edema of the lungs. . . . The heart was sometimes moderately enlarged and the heart sounds diminished in volume. . . . A more or less severe secondary anemia was invariably present. . . . Amenorrhea and sterility were extremely common...
...mental state was one of depression which varied with the degree of edema. This was particularly noticeable in children. . . . The adult patient . . . would repeat the same request over and over . . . with tears dripping from the cheeks. Cerebration was slow and the extraction of a history very tedious...
Billy Meers is four years old. Unless he gets at least a pint of blood a day, Billy Meers will die soon of renal edema, a kidney disease characterized by leakage of blood proteins into the urine. There are hundreds of patients like Billy in the U.S. Their blood needs are so extravagant that most doctors and hospitals give up the fight quickly, and the patient dies...