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Died. Dr. George Richards Minot, 64, Harvard professor of medicine (1928-48) whose interest in diet, enforced by his own diabetes, led him i) to the discovery that eating liver helped people with pernicious anemia and 2) to a one-third share of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Medicine; after long illness; in Brookline, Mass...
...outstanding achievement was the discovery of the liver treatment for pernicious anemia in 1926. Not only did he realize that a liver diet could reduce the seriousness of this red-blood cell deficiency, but he spend many years extracting the effective fraction of liver and making it commercially available for the medical profession...
...transfusion or in carrying the child of an Rh-positive father. The woman's Rh-negative blood then develops antibodies to destroy the alien Rh factor. She may transmit these antibodies to her infant's Rh-positive blood, where they attack the red cells and cause acute anemia (erythroblastosis fetalis). In modern practice there is an 80% chance of saving the infant's life promptly after birth, through a dramatic operation: the baby's blood is drained from its body and replaced with Rh-negative blood...
Mixing blood with different Rh characteristics may have harmful after-effects extending far beyond infant anemia, the University of Pennsylvania announced this week. Trying to get at the cause of hearing defects in 50 children suffering from a type of cerebral palsy, researchers in the Audiology Section found that every one of the afflicted children was the product of a mixed Rh ancestry. Now the researchers are checking on other hearing defects, not connected with cerebral palsy, to see whether Rh incompatibility is also the villain...
Iron & Vitamins. The Owenses went a step farther. Vitamin A apparently increases the infant's need for vitamin E, but at the same time it decreases the natural supply of E. In addition, iron added to the prematures' diet to prevent anemia destroys vitamin E. While practically nothing is known about the workings of vitamin E in the human body, this was a lead worth following up. The Owenses arranged to get a special preparation, d-1 alpha tocopherol acetate, rich in vitamin E, to be given in a water base...