Word: lahey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nurse, did not worry until 15 months, when Jo Ellen became abnormally irritable and puffy-faced. Doctors suspected leukemia-tests were negative. They thought of kidney disease-negative. Heart trouble-Jo Ellen was treated for three weeks and got no better. Finally they called in Blood Specialist Marion Eugene Lahey...
...watched Jo Ellen get sicker and paler. Dr. Lahey remembered experiments in which rats fed nothing but milk developed anemia, which yielded only when copper as well as iron was added to their diet. He knew of no such case in human babies, but Dr. Lahey sent a sample of Jo Ellen's blood serum to Salt Lake City to be tested. Last Thanksgiving Eve, Mrs. Ellen Koenig phoned her husband from the hospital to say: "They're releasing Jo Ellen undiagnosed" (meaning incurable, in this case). At the same moment Dr. Lahey's phone was jangling...
...Ellen was a patient again. Dr. Lahey and his colleague, Dr. William Schubert, started giving her both iron and copper. Jo Ellen grew back to apparent health-although she still needs five daily doses of a solution containing copper...
...Chicago Daily Newsman Ed Lahey reported that he had wired Thomas E. Dewey, seeking an interview about the possibility that Dewey might again be a presidential candidate. By wire Dewey replied: "Don't pay any attention to any political talk about me. It is nonsense. My only interest is in the renomination and election of the President...
...circumstances. U.S. businessmen not only work harder than those of any other nation; medical records suggest that they also die oftener and younger from physical disorders caused by the trip-hammer pressures of competition. More than half the businessmen who come in for checkups at Boston's famed Lahey Clinic are so keyed up that they must be warned to slow down or face heart disease, ulcers, colitis and high blood pressure. Of 1,000 executives examined at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital in a two-year period, 30% were found to have "abnormal physical conditions," serious enough...