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...cancer patients a dose of tetracycline four times a day for two days, then wait 36 hours for the drug to leave all the body's cells except those that may be cancerous. After that, samples of body fluid drained from the areas involved are centrifuged, spread on filter paper, dried and examined under ultraviolet light. "The smallest pinpoint of bright yellow fluorescence" is considered evidence of cancer, say Dr. Leslie J. Sandlow and Dr. Heinrich Necheles in this week's A.M.A. Journal...
...miles, delivering nearly 600 speeches, appearing on national television more than 100 times, and jabbing at the Democrats every inch of the way. He has called Adlai Stevenson "completely inept," castigated Averell Harriman as the man "who loused up Laos," described Pierre Salinger as "the thinking man's filter...
Calling themselves the "J's with Jamie," they are the original and only singers of the Marlboro song, "You get a lot to like with a Marlboro-filter, flavor, flip-top box." They sing the Campbell's Red Kettle Soup song and "The Campbells are coming with pork and beans." The J's and Jamie are so subtly harmonious that they can sound like six different brews for six different beers...
Micrometer Precision. About as big as its owner's fist, the human kidney is a biochemical filter with incredibly delicate powers of discrimination. It is also a prodigious worker (see diagram, left). All the water that anyone consumes in food or drink must go into the blood and be extracted by the kidneys before it can be voided as urine-contrary to the beer drinker's cliche "It goes right through you." Kidneys also work fast: the malodorous sulphur compound in asparagus is extracted and begins to be excreted in a couple of hours...
...form of longstanding kidney disease results in the progressive destruction of nephrons, until there are too few left to filter the blood adequately. This is the stage traditionally known as Bright's disease, in which pyelonephritis may be indistinguishable from glomerulonephritis. Kidney diseases are so interrelated, Dr. Luckey noted, that a patient who has had any one of them is predisposed to infections that cause pyelonephritis...