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...variety of things can cause an abrupt kidney shutdown: shock with heavy blood loss (after surgery or an accident), some severe infections, mismatched transfusions, and many poisons. Of these, carbon tetrachloride attacks the kidneys directly; most are general poisons (often, overdoses of common drugs such as barbiturates and even aspirin) which the overloaded natural kidneys cannot void fast enough...
...from their 4-ft.-high culdesac. Doctors found the men an average 10 Ibs. lighter but in surprisingly good shape. They had found enough food in their own lunch pails and in those of dead companions in the chamber for four days, enough water, when rationed from a tiny aspirin bottle, to last almost as long. Said one survivor proudly: "No man took more than his share." Toward the last they gathered their own urine in tin cups, sipped it and used it to moisten their lips in the miner's standard survival procedure. Next evening Prince Philip, returning...
Doctor: O.K., use one of the oral medicines. Try triple sulfa. Give him plenty of fluids and two grains of aspirin every four hours. Call me in three days...
...pill that costs 15? looks like your best bet to protect against atomic-bomb radiation," read an A.P. dispatch last week out of Burlington, Vt., citing "top nuclear scientists." The A.P. went on: "You could store it in your medicine cabinet just like aspirin ... If you had 15 minutes' warning of an atomic or H-bomb attack, you could gobble one of the pills." Unfortunately, all this was Utopian wishful thinking...
...Albert Peasemarch, butler to Sir Raymond, who has "about as much brain as you could comfortably put in an aspirin bottle," but whose skill in giving her cocker spaniel an emetic awakens the love of Sir Raymond's sister Phoebe...