Word: hypercalcemia
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...Harry Lowenburg and Theodore M. Ginsburg attained by poisoning two purpuric little boys with parathyroid hormone. That hormone increased the amount of calcium in the children's blood to such an extent that they vomited persistently, became listless. When the children were on the verge of dying from hypercalcemia. the doctors stopped the parathyroid injections. At once the victims perked up, ceased vomiting-and ceased purpuric bleeding. Last week Drs. Lowenburg and Ginsburg ventured: "A cause and effect relationship between the hypercalcemia and the apparent cures is suggested, although there appear to be no sound theoretical grounds for such...
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