Word: livered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liver, humblest of meats, is good for anemic patients. Where the bone marrow and spleen do not manufacture sufficient red blood corpuscles to keep a person healthy, he can build himself up on a diet of liver. Liver contains iron in such chemical form that it can be absorbed by the body in the indirect making of the red blood corpuscles. But a diet of a pound of liver a day is necessary. Anemic patients complain: "Doctor, it can't be done. I can't even take liver every day, and certainly not for every meal." The trouble...
...pound of calf's liver...
Bishop Freeman. The Right Reverand James Edward Freeman, bishop of Washington, oversees these diocesan works. He is a great strapping man, and a good liver. Men like him. They write him letters after he speaks his resonant lyricism over the radio. They give him money when he asks for it. The Washington Cathedral project has taken renewed vigor since his Episcopal resumption in 1923. Before that he was, for two years, rector of Epiphany Church in Washington; before that, for 11 years, rector of St. Marks Church in Minneapolis. While he was in Minneapolis he was elected Bishop Coadjutor...
...Come, come, my lad", I added. And we went to the side show. The fat lady immediately fascinated Oscar. "How does she get that way?", he punned. At which dirty crack I felled him with a right to the liver and three or four agreeable remarks. So he asked her. Her life story will appear under his name in the first interesting edition of the Alumni Bulletin. He has her picture done by some landscape artist of the gay seventies...
...pernicious anemia which he reported to the Chicago Society of Internal Medicine last week. Victims of pernicious anemia cannot, for reasons not yet entirely solved, manufacture red blood cells. To aid this manufacture Drs. George R. Minot and William P. Murphy devised a diet rich in iron compounds-liver, kidneys, gizzards. Dr. Walter W. Palmer of Manhattan proved this diet beneficial (TIME, Dec. 20). One reason for its good effects was that the liver, in particular, contained, besides iron, vitamin E. Dr. Koessler made certain of both the iron and the vitamin E in the foods he gave...