Word: anemia
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...Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes the rash drawer. Colonel Ishimoto, without asking permission, drew out the creese and waved it about. A few days later he went to Bandung, collapsed with pernicious anemia, and died. Javanese natives were impressed...
...people had no money. All they owned was fishing equipment. All they ate was cod, bread, tea, wild berries. They were plagued with tuberculosis, scurvy, anemia, beriberi. They had never seen a doctor, and they treated their sick with charms: sugar blown into babies' eyes to cure them of ophthalmia, haddock fin bones to ward off rheumatism, burned nail parings to drive away sea boils. A scratch with a fish hook often meant infection and the loss of a limb...
...death-belt consists of a few narrow valleys on the Western slope of the Andes from an elevation of 1000 to 2600 meters over an arid desolate and sparsely inhabited country. Nearly every one who spends a night here is affected a few days later with a severe anemia which often proves fatal. The red blood cell count may drop at the rate of a million...
Died. Jessica ("Jessie") Reed, 43, five-times-married Ziegfeld showgirl and once one of the highest-paid chorines in the world; of pneumonia and anemia; as a charity patient in Chicago's Osteopathic Hospital. Same day her daughter Ann Carroll de Brow won a Texas beauty contest...
Gypsy, Gypsy might have been written by Emily Bronte if she and her prose had pernicious anemia but were not otherwise seriously indisposed. The scene: a chateau in Normandy, cradled between the noises of the sea and a huge house of doves. The villainess: Aunt Barbe, an aging beauty with a body like a whip, fox-red hair, a spoiled child's genius for misusing others, and a voracity for doing evil which grows in ratio to her sense of guilt. She works out on her niece Henrietta, on her sheeplike old nurse Nana, on the peasants...