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Internal Medicine. Liver and liver extract established for the treatment, if not absolute cure, of pernicious anemia; and their value against anemias caused by kidney disease, cancer. Polyvalent serum against pneumonia. Improved technique for oxygen treatment of pneumonia...
Radioactive dust and emanations entered his system. They attacked his bones, prevented his marrow from making red blood cells. Aplastic anemia developed. Sojourn in high altitudes and 13 blood transfusions were useless. To void the radium that was in him would require, he once figured, 3,520 years. But eight years was all that he lived after he discovered what was wrong with...
...given intelligent care is unclean. An unclean mouth is one that retains decayed teeth, deposits on the teeth, diseased roots. Bacteria are starved by cleansing the mouth and the tissues are fed by stimulating the circulation which brushing gives."-Dr. Frederick Bricker of Hollywood, Calif. Results of unclean mouths: "Anemia, appendicitis, gastritis, nephritis, cystitis, myocarditis, iritis, encephalitis, gastric ulcers and a nasty disposition...
Died. Mrs. Ella Traver Allen, mother-in-law of Mayor James Walker of New York; at Clinton, Iowa, before his train reached there; of pernicious anemia...
High Liver. Drs. James Howard Means (Boston), Thomas Ordway (Albany), E. H. Heath Jr. (Baltimore), reported spectacular improvements in pernicious anemia patients on liver diets. But publicity means popularity. Healthy people are stuffing themselves with liver. Canny wholesalers profiteer. Many a poor pernicious anemiac, for whom liver meant lustier living, can no longer afford to buy it. Dr. W. S. Middleton emphasized the fact that patients must keep on eating liver to prevent relapse; deplored its present high priced popularity...