Word: hemoglobins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deafening"), he built up two great hospitals, a school of nursing, clinics for cerebral palsy and psychiatry, turned Rochester into one of the top medical centers in the nation. Meanwhile, he also found time to study the indispensable role of certain foods, principally liver, in the formation of hemoglobin-a discovery to which thousands of victims of pernicious anemia today owe their lives...
...proteins, went on to explore the architecture of protein, the fundamental substance of living organisms. On the surface, such work often seems remote from practicality, but it has helped chemists find the necessary techniques to create hundreds of new drugs, plastics, synthetic fibers. By unveiling the structure of the hemoglobin molecule, Pauling also revealed the nature of hitherto unrecognized ills, e.g., sickle-cell anemia, and may have laid the foundation for a whole new medical strategy against disease...
Ferry's scientific research has ranged from the study of hemoglobin to immunal chemistry, and his latest endeavor, the outgrowth of this World War II work, concerns the bacteria responsible for airborne infection. He teaches no formal courses, but divides his time between tutorial, research, and the House...
...newborn infants in a nursery at Uruguay's Pereyra Rossell Maternity Hospital in Montevideo turned blue last week. Doctors had no trouble diagnosing the mass illness as a hemoglobin disorder. But finding the cause was another matter. Meanwhile, as 15 of the babies seemed near death, every oxygen tent in the city was ordered to the hospital, and each infant's blood was completely changed by transfusion...
...reasons for the difference are partly chemical, partly psychological. Manufactured gas is full of carbon monoxide which has an even greater affinity for the body's hemoglobin than oxygen has. Natural gas is composed largely of methane and ethane, which do not replace oxygen in the blood. The only way they can kill is by diluting the oxygen until the victim suffocates. But this takes a long, long time, said Dr. Spain, and in the meanwhile, most would-be suicides change their minds or are discovered...