Word: spleens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Dr. Snapper: "The parasitic disease which places its mark all over internal medicine in North China is kala-azar....It has to be considered in nearly every patient." This hideous malady, caused by tiny protozoa (Leishmania), produces an enormous spleen, anemia, and ulcers around the mouth, robs the body of its white blood cells, kills 95% of its victims who are not treated. Antimony is a specific for the disease, but of course few of its victims ever see a doctor until the disease is far advanced. Kala-azar is primarily an affliction of dogs, is passed to human...
Torchsinger Helen Morgan, piano-sitting favorite of the dry days, had her spleen removed, lay gravely ill in a Chicago hospital. Evelyn Nesbit, stage beauty over whom Harry K. Thaw murdered Stanford White in 1906, turned up in a newspaper ad plugging a face-lifting process. Plugging for fat removal in an ad in the same paper appeared oldtime Shimmy Queen Gilda Gray. Los Angeles police who made a raid on an elaborate, white-tie gambling joint discovered that it was the onetime home of Billy Sunday, the late devil-fighting evangelist...
...Phosphorous, which settles in the bone marrow and spleen, is used for the cancer-like blood disease, leukemia...
Sooner or later most U. S. writers of any importance, and many of no importance at all, had been DeVotoized. If Critic DeVoto had been merely an angry man, slashing, jabbing, scolding with picturesque spleen, his enemies would have made short work of him. He was much more. In an atmosphere saturated with alien intellectual influences, he remained steadfastly and intelligently native. While most U. S. writers sighed for Europe, he looked resolutely and fondly homeward. He was a cultural nationalist before his contemporaries had thought up the term. And like most pioneers, he was a little too forthright...
...line data on sports and health in the U. S. In the New England Journal of Medicine last week Dr. Thorndike, who also teaches surgery in Harvard Medical School, published a technical article on injuries in sports. A meaty chronicle of sprains, strains, ruptures of the spinal column and spleen, fractures of the skull, collapses of the lungs, it might persuade a casual reader that a sports doctor's life is a gory...