Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minority, are noisy and truculent; 4) the South as in 1928 is confronted with the question of being Dry or Democratic; 5) Chairman Raskob holds his job more firmly than ever; 6) no presidential candidate profited from the meeting; 7) another convention of the Madison Square Garden 1924 kidney is in prospect for the party...
...another condition causes similar discoloring: pregnancy, constipation, cancer, chronic stomach ulcers, abdominal growths, pernicious anemia. Affection, most often tuberculosis, of the suprarenal glands, is the cause of Addison's disease. The glands are two small bodies, shaped like cocked hats and one perched at the top of each kidney. Each gland is made up of a cortex or rind and a medulla or pith. The two are inseparably united, more so than the core and pulp of an apple. Medulla and cortex have different embryonic origins. The medulla originally buds off from the same cells which provide the sympathetic...
...Roraback, Republican National Committeeman, for 18 years Connecticut's firm-fisted G. O. P. Boss, president of Connecticut Light & Power Co. To break Boss Roraback's grip, the Democrats at Eastern Point informally decided to put up for Governor no hard-boiled political veteran of the same kidney but rather a gentle academic man who had never before stood for public office. He was ruddy-cheeked, white-haired Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, 68, long-time professor of English literature at Yale, dean emeritus of Yale's Graduate School, scholarly editor of the Yale Review, author...
...years ago he fell ill. Thorough in everything, he was thorough in his sicknesses. He had cirrhosis of the liver, heart failure and kidney trouble all at once. His eyes and teeth also went back on him. For weeks at a time he can only sleep upright in a chair, his great grey head resting on his arms. According to all the laws of medicine he should have died a year ago. Between attacks he continues to paint, portraits now. Modern critics, incidentally, prefer these to his murals. His peacocks, sharks, panthers and zebras were magnificently alive, but there were...
...form of religion." Last week Dr. Louis Harry Newburgh of the University of Michigan's Medical College, no fanatic, gave out a statement. He related an experiment he had conducted: a laboratory worker, fed a diet of 32% lean meat for a period of six months, developed nephritis (kidney in flammation). Concluded Dr. Newburgh: "The Stefansson test was not an all-meat diet, since only 20% was muscle fibre, or lean meat. The rest was animal fat. This Arctic diet had no more lean meat or protein than an ordinary diet. . . . Stefansson's experiment cannot have any great...