AN UNUSUAL DISEASE
BODY FAILS TO MANUFACTURE
BLOOD
(From The Guardian's London Correspondent)
LONDON, September 24.
Gordon Avery, a 38-years-oid Plymouth ex-sailor, has lost the power to manufacture his own blood, and is being kept alive only by weekly injections of blood substitute costing 30/- each.
His strange case began in 1927, when he was invalided out of the Navy following recurring bouts of pneumonia. He recovered, and held various shore jobs until January last year, when he collapsed again. Doctors could not diagnose his trouble, but when it was found that no nourishment could help him it was realised that he had ceased to manufacture blood. A blood transfusion from his wife' saved him, daily injections re-
stored his strength and he left hospital. This year he collapsed again and when discharged this week, he said: "It is like being under sentence of death. I don't know what we shall do for the extra nourishment I need. There is a danger of creeping paralysis, but if I get the use of my legs again I shall try to find light work." |
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 87, 1 November 1938, Page 3
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