Word: livered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minot and William P. Murphy and applied by Dr. Walter W. Palmer of the Manhattan College of Physicians & Surgeons, has shown such good results at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, that doctors are telling each other of it. The treatment consists of feeding anemic patients a regulated diet of liver, kidneys and chicken gizzards. These foods contain iron and easily assimilated proteins which the victims need, but which their blood does not manufacture in sufficient quantity...
...although it is well-known that ultraviolet light can energize cholesterol and phytosterol (cholesterol is a constituent of animal cells, phytosterol, of plant cells) to behave like Vitamin D as a rickets-preventive. It might be that the ultraviolet light actually created Vitamin D. Vitamins found in milk, cod liver oil and fresh flesh have been supposed to have come ultimately from plants that carried such vitamins...
Died. Wang Sun Yun, great grandson of the onetime Emperor of Korea, a self-supporting student at Hastings College; at Hastings, Neb., of Banti's disease (an affliction of the liver, spleen, blood...
...charge is generated. In fatigue the ability to regenerate electric potential is reduced, in exhaustion it almost ceases. In death it stops altogether. In death there is no difference, chemical or electrical, between nucleus and cytoplasm. This fact Dr. Crile noted. He noted, too, that the brain and the liver decomposed 100 times faster than the heart or voluntary muscles. So he supposed that the brain is the positive pole of the human battery (collection of cells), that the liver is the negative pole. Heart, lungs, stomach are only accessories to the electrical operation of liver and brain. He found...
...Foot Children. Drs. Thomas B. Osborne and Lafayette B. Mendel of Yale reported dietetic experiments on rats which, if applied to humans, would produce six-foot six-year-olds. The diet: liberal proteins; lettuce; liver; yeast...