Word: kidneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great deal of foul language in field and camp, but very little of it got beyond a few four-letter words . . ." This complaint, in which Burges Johnson concurs, would be perfectly sound if cursing were entirely a verbal matter, but it is not. Its effect is proportionate to the kidney of the curser. The four-letter banalities that bore Mr. Mencken might suffice to turn him pale when uttered in foulness of spirit. Likewise, the most horrible oaths in the language can sound like pink tea if pronounced in a sterile tone. Professor Johnson does not go into the profundities...
...experiments with this diet have proved nothing at all. Low salt diet? "A treatment of doubtful value." Sympathectomy (cutting nerves leading to the body's small blood vessels)? It has not yet been shown to have much effect, but is "a highly desirable clinical experiment." Removal of one kidney? Only for conditions that would make surgeons take it out anyway...
...book is composed chiefly of worrywarts' case histories. Samples: ¶ Mr. H. J. Englert of Tell City, Ind. got scarlet fever, then nephritis ("a kidney disease"), ran his blood pressure up to 214. Doctors advised him to make sure that his "insurance was all paid up" and then to get dressed for his funeral. After a week's "wallowing in self-pity," Mr. Englert "threw back [his] shoulders, put a smile on." Today, he is not only alive and happy, but his "blood pressure is down...
...advantage of aerosporin: thus far bacteria have had a hard time developing resistance to it. One drawback: like streptomycin and other antibiotics, it may cause slight damage to the kidneys. Dr. Brownlee is sure that the kidney damage is caused by an impurity, which can eventually be removed. Meantime, the impurity is counteracted by an amino acid...
...last week, wrote Columnist Billy Rose, "a daffy story popped up on my desk" (the kidney-shaped one in the office Flo Ziegfeld used to use). It seemed, wrote Rose, that somebody's spinster Aunt Helen had died, and when the minister drew back the casket lid at the funeral, what should be inside but the uniformed corpse of a two-star general? The embarrassed undertaker said they might as well go ahead with the service. Aunt Helen had apparently been buried in Arlington Cemetery that morning, and only an act of Congress could...