Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
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...