Word: rh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attending an expectant mother in Solihull, near Birmingham, the doctors had good reason to believe that, like 85% of humanity, their patient's baby would have blood containing the mysterious factor Rh in positive form (TIME, Nov. 27). Such infants, cradled in the womb of a mother whose Rh factor is negative, occasionally develop a fatal anemia known as Erythroblastosis fetalis. The Solihull mother had already lost three babies for that reason...
...Wasp and the Fire. Meanwhile, the Germans, kept up their diversionary offensive in Alsace-Lorraine. This show was commanded by a rough-&-tumble general named Hermann Balck, who had distinguished himself in the Nazi retreat up the Rhône valley in France, and who had been built up in German popular esteem as a successor to the late Erwin Rommel. When the U.S. Seventh Army held and shoved back the German bulge south of Bitche, Balck attacked at Rimling, on the west shoulder of the Bitche salient. He also renewed his attacks on the French from the Colmar pocket...
...factor has been added to the marital equation. It is the Rh factor in human blood, discovered in 1940 and so named because famed Blood Analysts Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Solomon Wiener used rhesus monkeys in their early experiments. Exactly what the factor is, doctors still do not know, but they have devised tests to determine who is Rh-positive and who is Rh-negative, and have found that the Rh factor sometimes complicates blood transfusion. Last week Dr. Enrique Eduardo Ecker of Cleveland's Western Reserve University advocated premarital tests for the factor. Reason: an Rh-negative woman...
When such a woman conceives an Rh-positive child, there is a 1-in-30 chance that the child's blood may create a dangerous reaction in the mother's blood -with the result that the child, if it lives to be born, will have a dangerous disease called erythroblastosis fetalis, character ized by anemia and jaundice...
About 15% of U.S. men & women are Rh-negative and about 10% of marriages are in the danger zone. Some 5,000 babies with erythroblastosis fetalis are born alive each year, and 5,000 more are born dead...