Word: grampian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prescott's conclusion: phenacetin alone is not the primary villain in analgesic kidney damage. Back in his native Britain, he found that some of the supposedly phlegmatic Scots of the Grampian Hills were taking analgesic powders and tablets in overdoses that ran as high as ten tablets a day for 14 years. In a two-year period, 36 patients appeared at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with kidney disease and "a history of long-continued and excessive intake of analgesics." Besides their kidney damage, 30 of the patients were suffering from anemia, six had peptic ulcers and twelve had suffered gastrointestinal...
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