Word: livered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University Medical School, St. Louis. Pale, tall Dr. Cori, 51, specializes in sugar, the basic fuel of human metabolism. For 20 years he has traced the progress of sugar through the body, watched it turn into glycogen (animal starch), measured how much glycogen is stored in the muscles and liver...
Died. Anna Sage (real name: Ana Cumpanas), 58, the "woman in red" who 13 years ago pointed out Public Enemy John Dillinger to FBI men, who thereupon shot him dead; of a liver ailment; in Timisoara, Rumania, where she was deported in 1936 for running a Gary, Ind. brothel...
...first warning came from a Norwalk, Conn, hospital. Three baby boys, after being dosed with Analbis rectal suppositories, came down with violent poisoning symptoms-vomiting, cramps, drowsiness, convulsions. One was saved by an antitoxin and the other two died of liver poisoning. The drug's manufacturers promptly stopped shipments...
...year-old patient had a huge tumor that had engulfed his stomach and part of his upper abdomen. Dr. Brunschwig removed: 1) the stomach, 2) half the left lobe of the liver, 3) the body and tail of the pancreas, 4) the spleen, 5) the transverse colon (a section of the large intestine), 6) part of the abdominal wall. Then he connected the esophagus with what was left of the intestinal tract. The patient, left with only part of the intestines to serve as a digestive system, was "quite comfortable" after the operation, "enjoyed his food" (eaten in small, hourly...
Brunschwig's conclusion: a man could probably survive with part of one adrenal gland, part of the liver, about 30% of the small bowel, one kidney, a few other abdominal odds & ends...