Word: myasthenia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause many common and baffling disorders of the human nervous system, to say nothing of some forms of cancer. But indicting the culprits has proved to be incredibly difficult. Most of the diseases-such as multiple sclerosis, the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that killed Lou Gehrig, parkinsonism, and perhaps myasthenia gravis-do not normally attack animals, so it is next to impossible to study them in the laboratory...
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...
Clue in the Neck. Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi (pronounced St. Georgie) entered the cancer field almost by chance. After he fled Hungary's Communist control in 1947, he was able to resume at Woods Hole his long work on muscle. Concentrating on one of the commonest of muscular diseases, myasthenia gravis, he had a clue. Sometimes a victim of "MG" does better after his thymus gland is removed. Searching for the explanation, Szent-Gyorgyi, who has a Cambridge Ph.D. in biochemistry besides his M.D., spent years doing delicate chemical dissections of the thymus glands of calves, supplied by Chicago...