From Publishers Weekly Memory loss often has a reversible cause and is not necessarily part of growing old: this is the principal message of this comprehensive review of aging by a professor at the Yale University School of Medicine and author of Is Surgery Necessary? Claiming that senility and dementia are often neither permanent nor irreversible, Kra attributes them in large part to environmental factors, chronic depression and, most frequently, to improper medication. Citing case histories, he describes forms of dementia caused by medical conditions, e.g., hypertension, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular, kidney and lung ailments, along with chronic infections such as meningitis and AIDS. Alcohol abuse, he reminds us, may cause serious mental impairment, as may head injuries and tumors. On an encouraging note, Kra adds that unless we are afflicted with disease, a regimen of constructive activity, proper exercise and food should maintain emotional and intellectual health. February 10Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal The recent publicity about Alzheimer's disease may be relegating many elderly people to a needless senile existence due to the missed diagnosis of their real illness. As a cardiologist and assistant clinical professor at Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Kra has treated many patients whose senility was reversed through treatment of an underlying problem. He stresses the need for good nutrition, proper medication, and thorough medical examinations for the supposedly senile patient. He urges those who care for the elderly to look for every possible cause for brain failure, not merely accept it as a result of aging. Recommended for most health collections. Robert Schmid, Univ. of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical Sch. LRC, North ChicagoCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Aging Myths: Reversible Causes of Mind and Memory Loss

Kra, Siegfried

Medical Books

McGraw=Hill

This is an incredibly helpful, informative book that outlines the simple steps women can take to help their husbands live as long as they do. In How to Keep Your Husband Alive, the author, a leading professor at the Yale School of Medicine, sees to it that women know the telltale signs of illness and that they can at least try to help their stubborn husbands take better care of themselves and see a doctor.

How to Keep Your Husband Alive: An Empowerment Tool for Women Who Care About Their Man's Health

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Men's Health

UNKNO

Based on Siegfried Kra’s own childhood, Twilight in Danzig is an important addition to pre-Holocaust literature and a unique chronicle of European Jewish culture that reads like a thriller. Young Jonas Kruger’s parents. are scions of Danzig society, his father a coal merchant, his mother a lovely socialite. But the rise of Hitler in 1933 forces them to examine their identity and make difficult moral choices: Jonas’ governess secretly enrolls him in the Nazi Youth; Mr. Kruger buys open tickets on the Queen Mary, but keeps his family in Danzig, hoping the madness will blow over. But soon the anti-Jewish laws will reach Danzig and the Krugers will face the most difficult decision of their lives: whether to try to reform and resist from within, or to flee penniless to a country that doesn’t want them, leaving their larger family to an unspeakable fate.

Twilight in Danzig

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Pleasure Boat Studio

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Memoir. Short Story. Like the famous Russian literary physician Chekhov, Kra uses storytelling to connect medicine with the human condition, resulting in tales of love and loss, triumph and disillusionment. From post-war France and Switzerland to a modern private cardiology practice, and the teaching hospitals at Yale, Kra diagnoses rare diseases, falls in love, and even survives a plane crash on a frozen lake. An exploration of the Golden Age of Medicine coupled with vivid moments in unusual stories.

Dancer in the Garden

Parenting & Relationships

Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press

NINE LIVES is a sequel to Twilight in Danzig which tells of Siegfried Kra's childhood leading up to WWII, concluding with his family's escape from the Gestapo. Nine Lives begins when Kra's family emigrates to NY by boat. A riches to rags story, Kra picked up various ways to help feed his family when his once successful father in the coal industry was unable to find work. A desire to study medicine led Kra to Toulouse, France, where he became enraptured by studying every nerve ending and valve of the human body, which he drew on his chalkboard-painted walls and ceiling, until they became a part of him. Kra completed his education at Yale, where he later became a Professor of Medicine and practicing cardiologist. Within this novel are intriguing, charming and touching stories of romance, brushes with death and medical cases during the 'Golden Age of Medicine.' Nine Lives is an enchanting look into an older world that no longer exists and will stick with you long after you put it down. This was then...While some of these stories appear within the short stories of Dancer in the Garden, this book narrates a sequential, comprehensive, and more detailed life story. Kra wanted to save lives so that people could continue to live and love. As a ninety year old, Dr. Siegfried Kra is still an associate professor of medicine at Yale and Quinnipiac University Netter School of Medicine.

Nine Lives

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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