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From the Marrow. For at least two years, Mrs. Roosevelt had been anemic. Doctors established that her bone marrow was not producing enough blood cells, but why this was they had no idea. Each time her hemoglobin and hematocrit (red-cell concentration) readings fell alarmingly low, a blood transfusion lifted them above the danger level. Early this year, she was put on a regular dosage of cortisone-type hormones. This treatment carried the risk of reducing her resistance to infections. Not surprisingly, Mrs. Roosevelt began to run a fever. Nobody knew what was causing it. The common everyday infections, from...
...fever persisted; but only on the promise that it would be a short stay was Mrs. Roosevelt persuaded to go into Manhattan's famed Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. There, a specimen of Mrs. Roosevelt's bone marrow-the body's main factory for various elements in the blood-was taken by puncturing a hipbone with a big hypodermic needle. The hematologists who examined the marrow smears under the micro scope could not agree. Though there were enough cells present to rule out aplastic anemia, one of the deadliest forms of the disease, some of the experts thought...
About a week before she died, a culture inoculated with Mrs. Roosevelt's bone marrow produced the bacilli of tuberculosis. This was almost certain proof that TB had been the mysterious and stubborn lung infection, and an immediate cause of her fever. Most of the dozens of doctors called in on the case agreed that in patients of Mrs. Roosevelt's age, it is not unusual to find the blood-forming mechanism out of kilter in some obscure fashion. And in anybody as determined to keep going as she was, it was not surprising that TB germs (which...
...Nobel physics prize, Landau would almost surely have been allowed to go to Sweden for next month's ceremonies. But the great physicist is in a Moscow hospital, his memory still partially gone, his health still seriously impaired by the skull fracture and the eleven other bone breaks he suffered in an automobile accident nine months ago. Canadian Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield was flown in to join physicians from Russia, France and Czechoslovakia in the effort to keep Landau alive. For the Soviets hardly needed the Nobel committee to tell them the value of the man who not only helped...
...been buying more steel lately-though not enough to revive the whole industry-had it not bought so much last winter as a hedge against a possible steel strike. Those supplies took quite a while to melt down. The automakers' stockpiles of steel are now close to the bone, and Detroit at long last is beginning to increase its orders...