Word: liverance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Removal of an infected gall bladder, which is inextricably fastened to the liver, is simpler with the electric knife. After Dr. Whitaker cuts away all loose parts of the gall bladder, he sears the remainder in its liver bed. Thus he effectively prevents damage to the liver, dangerous hemorrhage, and dripping of infectious material into the peritoneum...
About that time (1924) Dr. Minot learned from Dr. Whipple, who soon became "my closest friend," about the effect of liver on secondary anemia. So with some confidence and Dr. Murphy's constant help, Dr. Minot began to feed pernicious anemics with liver. The results were too miraculous for hasty announcement. Drs. Minot and Murphy, with proper salute to Dr. Whipple, made their formal announcement...
Soon biochemists were able to substitute liver extracts for cooked liver. A little later biochemists learned to extract a quintessence which could be administered with a hypodermic needle...
Then Harvard's Dr. William Bosworth Castle discovered why liver helped anemics. Pernicious anemia, he showed, is a deficiency disease in a category with diabetes and myxedema. In pernicious anemia the stomach fails to secrete a certain substance which as yet has not been isolated. Ordinarily that stomach secretion mixes with food, especially meats, and produces a second, unidentified substance in the intestines. There the second unknown is absorbed and gets to the arm and leg bones where it stimulates the production of red blood cells...
...Liver only stays death from pernicious anemics. However, with $14,000 practically in his hands to pay for further research, Dr. Minot could confidently proclaim last week: "We are on the track of a cure, a complete and final cure...