Word: toxemias
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Item: countless pregnant women are subjected to outside emotional stresses, such as loss of husband by death or desertion, serious illness or death of a child, loss of income, housing problems. Item: many also suffer mysterious internal stresses apparently brought on by pregnancy, e.g., continued uterine bleeding or toxemia, an ill-defined, little-understood condition believed to be caused by unidentified poisons, often accompanied by high blood pressure, liver or kidney disease. Item: countless babies are born sickly, or with obvious deformities, or with impaired mental powers. Doctors are asking themselves what connection there is between these facts...
...During pregnancy, a Type 0 woman is more likely to develop toxemia. ¶ The danger of lung cancer seems unrelated to the ABO groupings, but one study suggested that Rh-negative people are slightly less subject to this fast-increasing disease than others. ¶ Cancer of the stomach is significantly commoner among Type A subjects, but no such relationship has been found in cancers elsewhere...
Father Doing Well. They found Paula, a chunky, black-haired woman, sprawled on the only bed, her head thrust back in agony. While Dr. Martin examined her for signs of toxemia or a breech (butt-or feetfirst) delivery, the rest of the team spread newspapers over the furniture and set up equipment in the tiny kitchen. As they worked, Benjamin, the father, hovered anxiously in the background. A faulty electric fan started a fire, which Benjamin hastily...
...Captain Maximillian Christian Kern and the other Navy doctors who report the case in the Naval Medical Bulletin: "Burn patients die not of their burns, but of shock, toxemia or sepsis." The burned sailor suffered all three, one after the other. Blood and plasma transfusions, salt solution by vein, sedatives and a sound pair of kidneys pulled him through...
...pigeon disease seemed so similar to human migraine that Dr. Palmer had a hunch his own headaches were caused by lack of B 1 . The vitamin deficiency, he believed, upset body metabolism, produced a poisoning of body tissues. Migraine, Dr. Palmer concluded, is only a symptom of this toxemia...