Word: toxemia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wound Shock. The bane of medical officers in France during World War I. "wound shock" is a condition of "lowered vitality" which follows wounds, even trivial ones. Unchecked, it causes death. Wound shock comes from pain, loss of body heat, bleeding and toxemia. Lack of water balance, due to excessive sweating and short water rations, makes soldiers ready victims. The loss of fluid thickens their blood, produces a high concentration of poisonous urea. Best treatment for wound shock, discovered in the last year of World War I: 1) small doses of morphine for relief of pain; 2) an abundance...
...microbe shaped like a comma, which enters the body only through the mouth, infests the digestive tract, irritates the bowels to such extent that they extract and eject quarts of fluid from the body. A victim of cholera may die-shriveled and cold from dehydration, uremia and toxemia-within four or five days of exposure to infection...
...Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Harvard football end, son & namesake of the onetime Securities & Exchange Commissioner, with fractured knee & ribs, in Boston; Cinemactress Claudette Colbert, after her head was knocked against the roof of her automobile in a crash, in Los Angeles; Cinemactress Gertrude Michael, with toxemia, in Manhattan...
...food to which the upper bowel is accustomed continues for more than a very few hours, those species of bacteria normally resident in the colon and cecum ascend into the ileum and jejunum and there proliferate giving rise to huge amounts of gas and to symptoms of toxemia from absorption...
Acne also seems to be associated with sagging viscera, sluggish bowels, and intestinal toxemia. There is an acne bacillus. But it probably merely thrives on the disease, does not cause...