Word: kidney
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Matches & Railroads. When World War I started, Monnet was rejected for the French army because of a kidney ailment (nephritis), entered the French Ministry of Commerce as a junior official. At the time, France and Britain were bidding against each other for badly needed raw materials, despite the fact they were allies, and no one seemed to know what to do-except Monnet, who proposed an Anglo-French high commission to coordinate procurement and supplies. By war's end, Monnet had made such a brilliant impression in Paris and London that, though only 31, he was appointed Deputy Secretary...
...intently observed 60 toadfish injected with an experimental anticancer drug, methyl GAG (for glyoxal-bis-gua-nylhydrazone). The researchers were trying to find out why the drug produces an undesirable side effect-lowered blood sugar. The toadfish is an ideal subject for such an experiment because it has simple kidney and insulin-producing mechanisms that permit researchers to observe sugar changes. To obtain blood samples, the researchers prick each toadfish's tail. To collect urine, they attach balloons to the excretory ducts of the toadfish, let them swim around for several days in a briny tank, take the urine...
...from its arts and manners. Like one of his favorite figures, Montaigne, he can "speak to paper as I do to the first person I meet." Indeed, he is often at his most eloquent when speaking of Montaigne himself, whose lifelong preoccupation with his health (notably kidney stones) leads Durant to a typical, one-sentence appraisal: "He sought the philosopher's stone and found it lodged in his bladder...
Died. Alexander Hilsberg, 61, Warsaw-born product of the St. Petersburg violin-prodigy assembly line (others: Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein) who served 20 years as concertmaster of the "ideal orchestra" of his youth, the Philadelphia, before taking over the New Orleans Symphony in 1952; of heart and kidney disease; in Camden...
Millions of people suffer from ailments that doctors treat by prescribing low-salt diets. The most important are congestive heart failure and many forms of kidney disease (in which the body retains too much water, to match an excess of salt). Also, salt sometimes complicates cirrhosis of the liver and possibly high blood pressure. Yet in many parts of the U.S. and Canada, says Alberta's Dr. George B. Elliott, the benefits of the low-salt diet are wiped out by the water that patients drink-water loaded with sodium in any of several salts, including sodium chloride (common...