Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doctors who know how to treat the patient suffering from a virtually complete failure of kidney function find it far more difficult to treat kidney problems that are more numerous and less serious...
Complete breakdown calls for the familiar artificial kidney.* Partial failure calls for repeated "peritoneal irrigations" to wash out the body's natural metabolic poisons-and the process requires an abdominal incision for each irrigation...
Died. Homer William Smith, 67, lanky, leading U.S. physiologist who was first to trace the evolution of the kidney, for 34 years taught New York University medical students to reflect on the arts as well as the sciences, and as a passionate agnostic sought to prove in his books Kamongo and Man and His Gods that organized religion is a figment of man's fearful myths; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...precision tactics-he would rehearse a play 500 times before using it in a game-and for all his hard-bitten exterior raised a whole generation of U.S. football coaches ranging from Yale's late Herman Hickman to Georgia Tech's Bobby Dodd; of a liver and kidney ailment; in New Orleans...
...never let a custard pie go unthrown and grew rich, together with Straight Man "Ole" Olsen (currently touring in Europe), by endlessly repeating their zany show, Hellzapoppin, a unique blend of slapstick and what O & J christened "gonk," which they defined as "hokum with raisins in it"; of a kidney ailment; in Las Vegas...