Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though men and women suffer misery-making allergic reactions to countless things, from ragweed pollen to wheat or eggs or the Rh factor from a husband's blood, medical researchers are confident that no one person can be allergic to another. But now there is a fast-growing body of evidence that something much more insidious and harder to understand may cause some of man's most common and crippling disorders. People, it seems, can become allergic to parts of themselves...
This arcane process of "auto-allergy" may be an important factor in many cases of anemia, in rheumatoid arthritis and myasthenia gravis, and in kidney and thyroid diseases. Last week, at the second of two Manhattan conferences on what many doctors prefer to call "autoimmune disease," researchers added impressive evidence on two recent additions to the catalogue of such ills: ulcerative colitis and pernicious anemia...
...self,' and it will not damage 'self materials. Occasionally these safeguards break down." Dr. Dameshek detected such a breakdown in 1937 when he was treating three patients for severe hemolytic ("blood-destroying") anemia. They needed transfusions, but in the blood of each patient the doctor found a factor that made cross-matching difficult. He discovered that both the donors' blood cells and the patients' own were being destroyed by an antibody mechanism. Dr. Dameshek deduced that the patients had developed antibodies against their own cells...
...stopped in Oregon, and that is through an all-out Nixon campaign. "Dick Nixon could field an organization yet that could put on a professional-type campaign," says one G.O.P. official. "People here identify with him. He's a former neighbor. There's a certain parochial geographic factor; it's latent and it could be stimulated." Elmo Smith agrees: "If Nixon came in, he'd eat at all of them some. He would pick up quite a bit of the middle-road or slightly conservative vote. Lodge would be hurt the most...
There are a few left-handed desks in the University. True, there are a few old wooden models moldering in the smaller classrooms, but these are hardly sufficient and only add one more arbitrary factor by which to choose one's courses...