Word: edema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Rose Frances Witz Whitney Hull, 79, wife of Cordell Hull, longtime (1933-44) Secretary of State under F.D.R.; of pulmonary edema; at her childhood home in Staunton...
...Degrees of starvation cannot be measured by loss of weight. As the body burns up its own stored fat it begins to store water instead, causing edema (waterlogged swelling), so that starving people may have chubby faces...
...time he left for Great Falls in 1933, Dr. Schemm knew what he wanted to do. Inspired by Dr. Louis H. Newburgh's work at Michigan on kidney function and water balance, Dr. Schemm came to the conclusion that it was probably all wrong to keep victims of edema (dropsy) on a low-water regimen. Dr. Schemm learned that many medical men had suspected that the way to get rid of the water in dropsy was to give more water, not less. Cautiously he began to test the theory on heart-disease patients bloated by dropsy...
Less Brine. Like Dr. Henry A. Schroeder (then at the Rockefeller Institute), with whom he corresponded, Dr. Schemm was soon sure that he was on the right track. The nub of his idea was that dropsy victims were not waterlogged, but brine-logged. Edema fluid, said he, is no more fit for the body to use than sea water. Excess sodium in the body, usually in the form of its chloride (common salt), takes large amounts of water to keep it in solution. Often its demands are so great that a dropsy victim is simultaneously suffering from a shortage...