Word: uremia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, were the doctors willing even to suggest any use (such as temporary relief of uremia) to which the method might eventually be put. But Mr. Pepys, willing like most laymen to rush in where scientists fear to tread, ventured 272 years ago to draw a conclusion from the experiment he described. Said he: "This did give occasion to many pretty wishes, as of the blood of a Quaker to be let into an Archbishop, and such like; but . . . may, if it takes, be of mighty use to man's health, for the amending of bad blood by borrowing...
...cholera is a 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...
...American Journal of Surgery last week he reported that he had treated dozens of diseases with spinal B, injections, including duodenal ulcers, tuberculosis, inoperable cancer, cardiac decompensation, uremia, anuria, tabes dorsales, multiple sclerosis. These were not all cured by any means, especially in the cancer cases, but in all cases there was a diminution of pain, the patients looked and felt better, and in some instances there was a rejuvenating effect which Dr. Stern attributed to the vitamin. His most touching case was an elderly woman who was almost pathologically addicted to sweets and had von Recklinghausen's disease...
Last week, in Southampton, L. I., Andrew William Mellon, long one of his country's richest men, Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932, died of uremia, broncho-pneumonia...
Died-William Carrington Stettinius, 41, Baltimore stockbroker, son of the late Morgan Partner Edward R. Stettinius; of uremia; in Baltimore...