Word: liverance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make enough money to carry him to the U. S. Recently he appeared at the offices of the Panama American, told his story which was promptly resold to the North American Newspaper Alliance. As originally written, it began: "I, Rene Belbenoit, who have smelled the odor of human liver being cooked by escaped convicts, who have seen groups of men decapitated every month...
...incidentally as an advertisement for his bandages, Mr. Camp, after being quoted a price reputed to be $20.000, told the Dresden artisans to go ahead. First, the skeleton of a young Dresden woman, killed in an accident, was treated with preservative, covered with paraffin. Brain, heart, stomach, lungs, thyroid, liver, spleen, pancreas, bladder and other organs were taken from corpses, made transparent by a secret process, dyed, photographed in color, enlarged, projected on a screen in three dimensions. From these projections artists made tracings which were used by sculptors to model the organs which actually went into the figure...
Some of the tales Jimmy told his guests to illustrate his contention that Patagonia was a man's country: a favorite Indian pick-me-up for a hangover was a mixture of raw liver, heart, kidneys and blood of a guanaco (llama-like native antelope). When two men were having a fight, one bit off the other's ear; the earless man got his opponent down, beat him about the face till he swallowed the ear. As indication that not all Patagonian hard cases are yet dead, jailed or retired, Jimmy wrote the Childses after their departure that...
...right after their operations. His theory: "The human intestinal tract is a muscular tube, the mucous membrane of which secretes digestive ferments and the motility of which is largely dependent upon these ferments and the presence and character of the food material in the bowel. Activity of the liver, the chemical engine of the body, and the secretion of bile is greatly influenced by the amount and the variety of ingested food. Whenever starvation supervenes, and the usual hospital liquid diet is really semistarvation, the bacteria normally present in the bowel increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus...
Next day Dr. Brooks died. Immediate cause was not the liver abscess but a gas gangrene germ of which Dr. Brooks was co-discoverer some 40 years ago-the Welch bacillus, named for the late famed William Henry Welch...