Word: anemia
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Sulfanilamide, the parent drug, was first tried on a wide variety of bacterial infections. At present its use is limited mainly to meningitis, erysipelas, urinary-tract infections. It is easy to take, "well handled by the body and excreted without difficulty," but it brings about two "exceedingly common" complications: anemia and cyanosis (lack of oxygen). On the whole, it is "less effective therapeutically than other related compounds and is being supplanted by them." It is the only sulfonamide compound which can be given rectally with success...
...Kentucky poet and novelist whose grave, searching stories of her mountain people (The Time of Man, Black is my True-love's Hair, Song in the Meadow) were told with a dignity of language that made her one of America's most distinguished women writers; of anemia; in Orlando...
Died. Nicholas ("Collective Security") Titulescu, 57, towering, trigger-witted Rumanian diplomat, picturesque pillar of the League of Nations in its palmy days, six times his country's pro-French, pro-democratic Foreign Minister, leader with Eduard Benes in the late Little Entente; of pernicious anemia resulting from tuberculosis; in exile, in Cannes, France...
...chickens. A political fight has frozen the funds supposed to support the colony, which sinks deeper in debt every time it buys the meagre rations of coffee, rice and beans it lives on. Only bright spot was the morale and spirit of the colonists themselves who, ridden with anemia and malaria, work desperately hard, hold classes for natives...
...China Medical College, recently published a fascinating little book on old Chinese remedies The Chinese Way in Medicine; Johns Hopkins Press, $2.25). Dr. Hume points out that ancient Chinese doctors, dusty as they may seem, were he first in history to use: 1) liver as an antidote for anemia; 2) iron-bearing seaweed for thyroid disease; 3) ephedrine for colds...