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After the degree of anemia, the doctor must find the cause. There is no excuse nowadays, Dr. Wintrobe contends, for a doctor who just picks a shotgun type of blood tonic from the medical advertisements and hopes for the best. Prescribing iron is merely treating the symptom, and often worthless: an adult male should get all the iron he needs from a normal diet, unless he is losing blood; so should a woman, barring unusual menstrual difficulties. The iron deficiency may be a clue which will lead the thorough physician to a kidney disorder, a liver infection, inflammation...
Continuing he explains, "The city manager never has to respond to the people. He's a tough guy to get rid of. It took 11 years to get rid of Atkinson, and then it took a shotgun wedding...
Died. Hastings William Sackville Russell, 64, twelfth Duke of Bedford and one of Britain's richest men (his fortune was once estimated at $14 million); of a shotgun wound, apparently accidental, while hunting alone on his 12,000-acre Devon estate. An eccentric, fuzzy-minded pacifist, Bedford could, and often did, switch causes at the drop of an ideal. Having had enough of Bedford's muddled diatribes, the House of Lords once resolved that "the noble Duke no longer be heard." Ill at ease with most people, he often preferred the company of deer, bison and parakeets...
...Shotgun Blast. Driving himself as relentlessly as he drove the assistants who performed the practical experiments to prove his brilliant theoretical flashes, Cohn identified more and more of the components of blood, and developed improved methods for extracting many of them. There was fibrinogen, raw material from which fibrin film and fibrin foam are made, to close wounds and cover the brain in daring, delicate surgery. There was thrombin, which combines with fibrinogen but is used separately in some cases. There was a special kind of globulin for hemophiliacs. There were globulins which made possible the immediate typing...
...prevents measles or softens its severity, and wards off infectious hepatitis. Most recently, gamma globulin has won fame in the fight against polio. A less exacting researcher might have been satisfied, but not Cohn. He hated the waste (and doubted the wisdom) of using whole gamma globulin as a shotgun blast against any of three diseases, and wanted to break it down into still finer fractions for pinpoint use against each disease...