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Cholesterol, the cornerstone of Dr. Keys's theory, is a mysterious yellowish, waxy substance, chemically a crystalline alcohol. Scientists assume that cholesterol (from the Greek chole, meaning bile, and stereos, meaning solid) is somehow necessary for the formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight. They know it is the chief ingredient in gallstones. They suspect it plays a role in the production of adrenal hormones, and they believe it is essential to the transport of fats throughout the circulatory system. But they cannot fully explain the process...
...blood supply of the membrane, they started to grow again. Kidney cells grew into a tiny kidney that seemed to be trying to purify the blood of a nonexistent chick. Liver cells developed into a miniature liver one-fifth of an inch long and apparently able to secrete bile to digest a chick's food. The skin cells arranged themselves into a sheet, produced sprouting feathers about one-tenth of an inch long...
...description of a selfconscious, self-elected young genius shows why his book is worth Graves's trouble and the reader's time: "A young man, pale and gloomy, who avoids mankind and walks alone through the deserted countryside, a concentration of thought and bile, a liver with feet...
...usual sense tendentious. No self-made, power-mad Brown-shirted or Black-shirted or Red dictator, Caligula was bred to the purple; endowed with unlimited power, what he came to thirst after was unlimited "freedom." Camus' Caligula, whose once very human blood has turned to bile, and from bile to venom, would have the impossible: he would dispense with love, reason, friendship-every bond uniting humanity. He would as passionately destroy as other men create, would claim to be a god that he might act the beast...
...researcher is Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, and the HSWC seems to be the only place from which he can obtain the bile. Earlier, Fieser had been forced to go out and catch his own shark when his request to Marineland Aquarium in Florida netted the reply that they could not find the gall bladder...