Word: liverance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strengthens and hardens aluminum alloys), may be an obscure cause of rickets. When the experimenters added as little as 2% of beryllium carbonate to the diet of rats, the rats grew humpbacked, wobbled as they walked, showed practically all the other signs of rickets. No amount of cod-liver oil, viosterol, ultraviolet light or sunlight improved their condition. Best deduction is that the beryllium combines with phosphorus, which is essential for healthy bones and muscles, forms an unassimilable beryllium phosphate, thus starves the body of phosphorus...
...customs had different logics. Egyptians believed that the preservation of a man's identity required the preservation of the entire body. Because the viscera were difficult to preserve in situ the Egyptians lifted them out, put the heart and lungs in one jar.† the liver and bladder in another, the stomach and large intestine in a third, the small intestines in a fourth jar, all of which rested in the tomb with the embalmed body...
President Roosevelt likes scrambled eggs, codfish balls, fried liver, seafoods. He does not care for sweets, seldom eats desserts. But he is not finicky about his food. He eats some of whatever may be on the table. For breakfast he regularly has two eggs, three rashers of bacon, two slices of toast, orange juice. On his sedentary boating vacation, he ate quantities of baked beans, gained 7 Ib. (174 Ib. to 181 Ib.). When he returned to Washington, looking fit as a bull fiddle, he declared last week he was going to lose that excess weight at once...
Thereupon Dentist Dreher hatched some germ-free blowfly eggs and fed the larvae for twelve hours on pig-liver. One of these tiny maggots he penned in the pulp chamber of the tooth with a light cotton plug. Three days of work killed the maggot. Another slim maggot then went to work, delved for three days, died. Then a third maggot. After nine days the tooth was cleaner than a dog's, "with the exception of a thin, hard, white secretion left on the wall of the canal by the maggot." That coating was sterile...
...Other organs which probably secrete hormones: pineal (in the brain), thymus (back of the collar bone), liver, heart, spleen...