Word: hematologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Know Thyself." Boston Hematologist Dr. William Dameshek of the Tufts-New England Medical Center pioneered the concept of autoimmune disease. It has long been accepted dogma that in ordinary healthy immune reactions the body is using a birthright of every living creature. This is a set of biochemical sentries which raise an alarm when the body is invaded by a foreign substance, especially a protein, so that the system can make antibody to neutralize the invader. "Normally," says Dr. Dameshek, "the body has safeguards so it can recognize 'self as opposed to 'not-self,' and it will...
...easy enough to understand how the body can regard the escaping antigen-protein as "new" or "foreign," because it has been sequestered for years, perhaps since the fetal stage. Far more knotty are the questions that arise so often in Dr. Dameshek's practice as a hematologist. No less than 50% of all blood-destroying anemias acquired after infancy, he believes, are the results of autoimmune reactions. He is so confident of this that he abbreviates the disorders to AIHA-autoimmune hemolytic anemias...
...fall, though, the surgical wounds had broken open and become infected. Still brooding about his father's death, Fred went back to the hospital, where his condition steadily deteriorated. After consulting with Hematologist Joseph M. Hill, Baylor surgeons decided to fight the infection with antibiotics and to reopen Fred's leg wounds to clean them out. Dr. Hill, who is also director of the Wadley Research Institute and Blood Bank in Dallas, promised to supply all the necessary blood and plasma for transfusion. It was no easy promise to fulfill. Fred got progressively sicker. The blood bank drained...
...average, bright men are short, but I wouldn't refer to Caesar, Bonaparte, Mozart or Charlie Chaplin as bassotti. The only very tall bright men I can think of at the moment are President Lincoln, President Kennedy, De Gaulle and Dr. Clement A. Finch, world famous hematologist of Seattle, Washington...