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...skin or mucous membranes in spots which range in size from pinpoints to silver dollars, in color from flaming red to black & blue. Bruises cause transient purpuric blotches called ecchymoses. Typhus fever causes dotty purpura or petechiae. The kind of purpura which interested Dr. Fishbein last week was thrombocyto-penic purpura. Victims of this condition are constantly in danger of suffering a gush of blood from any of the orifices of the body. Without apparent cause or warning blood is likely to accumulate in a puddle somewhere under their skin, in the brain, in the adrenal glands. Disease renders capillary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poisons for Purpura | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

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