Word: raynaud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body's signal system. Along this line is the work of the Mayo Clinic's handsome senior brain surgeon. Dr. Alfred Washington Adson. Dr. Adson told the London Congress the technique, which he worked out with a Mayo associate, Dr. George Elgie Brown, of stopping Raynaud's Disease. This is a disease to which neurotic young women are peculiarly susceptible. After exposure to cold, shock or insult, their fingers or toes turn white, feel icy, grow numb, hurt. Attacks last from a few minutes to an hour. After many attacks the fingers or toes decay, may drop...
...Such cases as tumor of the brain, acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis, hypertrophy of the prostate of Raynaud's disease may demand consultation with specialists or their technical services. . . . But to the wage earner who is attempting, with his family, to subsist on $30 a week, a pain in the epigastrium is just cramps and not allergic abdominal migraine...