Word: anemia
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...doctors can cure hookworm anemia, suppress malaria and relieve leprosy. But most of the sick in Alamadi need food more than medicine. It would take much more than a weekly bus to cure that...
...operation was performed without mishap. But convalescence was stormy and the wound took ten weeks to heal, despite special care in closing it with buried stitches. With the aid of blood transfusions, the patient recovered, and her anemia passed. She has stayed well for six months...
Last year, exhibitors cured the box-office anemia of 20th Century-Fox's A Ticket to Tomahawk by changing the title to The Sheriff's Daughter. Last week, despite good reviews, the same studio's U.S.S. Teakettle proved surprisingly anemic in its first bookings. The company decided to yank the movie out of release, give it the same kind of tonic. New title: You're In the Navy...
...Westcott was trying to find a cure for certain types of anemia. He noted that the odors of vitamin B and of asparagus, usually noticeable in the urine, were greatly decreased when his patients were taking chlorophyll-A (one of the two major chlorophyll fractions). This gave him the idea that chlorophyll might work in the body, through metabolic processes, to deodorize bad breath and perspiration...
Victims of radiation sickness (e.g., after an atomic bombing) are likely to die of anemia because the blood-building properties of the bone marrow are damaged. In everyday medical practice, X-ray dosages have to be worked out with utmost care to keep the patient from falling prey to radiation sickness. Treatment of cancer is often hampered by this limitation...