Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Thomas Edmund Knight Jr., 38, Lieutenant-Governor of Alabama; of a kidney ailment; in Montgomery, Ala. Son of the Alabama Supreme Court Justice who withheld the original conviction of the Scottsboro boys, Lieut.-Governor Knight was State prosecutor of the case in subsequent retrials (TIME, April...
...miles of blood vessels in the body and the yards of drainage tubules in the kidneys, a vast variety of troublesome conditions may cause high blood pressure. There is one condition, however, which always occurs in the beginning of hypertension, Dr. Goldblatt announced last week. That is a reduction in the amount of blood supplied to the kidneys. Dr. Goldblatt determined this by attaching tiny silver clamps to the kidney arteries of dogs. With the blood supply cut off from the kidneys, they began to deteriorate and produced an undetermined substance which affected the adrenal glands (one on each kidney...
...operation on the nervous system, such as Cleveland's Surgeon George Washington Crile advocates, prevented high blood pressure in dogs whose kidney arteries Dr. Goldblatt clamped. Excising the adrenals prevented and cured the high blood pressure. But no adrenalectomized creature, including man, can live more than a few months. So Dr. Goldblatt, with a good explanation for high blood pressure in his notebook, does not know what to do about...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., caught dumping mail into an incinerator, Postman Henry M. Briggs, 48, protested: "My feet hurt me and I had a kidney ailment...
...Manchester Guardian observed in a gentlemanly salute to Trotsky last week, "Let us hope he will find a sure refuge in Mexico-a revolutionary country where a great revolutionary may be appreciated and understood." At latest reports, Host Diego Rivera had had to return to a hospital with a kidney ailment; Mrs. Trotsky had gone to bed with what seemed to be a recurrence of her malaria; Guest Trotsky, respectfully watched and waited on by dark-eyed young Hostess Rivera, had resumed dictation to his secretaries of his monumental Biography of Lenin, begun nearly two years...