Word: liverance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purpose of medical art is didactic, to teach medical students about healthy and unhealthy human bodies and how to operate on them. Earliest known examples of medical art are Babylonian baked clay models of the liver. Earliest known medical painting represents the birth of one of Cleopatra's babies. In the Italian Renaissance painters belonged to the Guild of Physicians & Apothecaries, because they bought supplies from drugstores. Artists thus developed friends among doctors, and had opportunity to study anatomy. Leonardo da Vinci made more than 750 anatomical sketches, was the first to depict the true position of the fetus...
...serpentine germ, Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae, causes the disease, affects the spleen and liver, yellows the eyes and skin, raises temperature, is not often fatal. Donald Siegle's pet dog had an attack of jaundice a fortnight before the child died, and may have transmitted the germ. But in the beginning, Dr. Vaughan knew, rats were responsible. Every tenth rat in any community harbors Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae, with no inconvenience to itself, but with grave trouble for man or beast who eats, drinks or touches food fouled...
...weather and it turned out that none of them knew navigation, they beached the boat, started back through dense jungle for the Penal Colony. A peg-legged convict killed a comrade for his can of condensed milk, and the leader in turn killed him. They roasted and ate his liver and his good left leg, of which Belbenoit confesses that one mouthful (which tasted like wild pig) was enough...
Companies his results with isolated human cases, Dr. Drinker reasoned that the worker: who succumbed might have suffered unnoticeable liver changes from the fumes which made them easy victims of relatively innocuous diseases. To check this he took rats which had been exposed to the fumes and which had supposedly suffered liver injuries and administered a treatment known to attack that organ...
...result were conclusive. The least chlorinated mixture had no bar effects, as was expected, but raia exposed to more complex compounds developed serious liver ailments with a high percentage of details...