Word: livered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surgeon Hilger P. Jenkins and three colleagues at the University of Chicago School of Medicine put the sponge to the severest tests on 80 dogs. They cut the heart, liver, veins, arteries, then capped the gushing wounds with pads of dry gelatin sponge. In almost every case, bleeding stopped in a few minutes. In less drastic operations on 140 human patients, the sponge was just as effective...
...alcoholic's hangover, says Dr. Lolli, differs fundamentally from that of a casual drinker: the alcoholic, after a drinking bout, is beset with uncontrollable tremors, nameless fears, insomnia, an enlarged liver, all sorts of neurotic digestive disorders. He badly needs food, because a prolonged diet of alcohol produces vitamin and mineral deficiencies...
Misconception No. 1. Prolonged drinking, he thinks, has made him an irreparable physical wreck. The fact: alcohol weakens the body, but seldom damages it permanently. Aside from certain easily remediable ailments (such as a temporarily enlarged liver, vitamin deficiency diseases-e.g., pellagra), there are few disorders traceable to drinking. Cirrhosis of the liver, one of the few which seems to have a connection, attacks only 8% of drunkards (v. 1% in the general population...
After tours of duty in the Pentagon and the Pacific, he took over command of the Sixth Army with headquarters at San Francisco's Presidio. There last week death came to Joseph Warren Stilwell, 63, after an operation on the liver. A 17-gun salute was fired, the flag was hauled down to the accompaniment of ruffles and flourishes. Uncle Joe would have snorted at such solemn ceremonial. But just 24 hours before he died, he had got his dying wish: on orders of War Secretary Patterson, he received the Combat Infantryman Badge...
...Died. General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, 63, tough, leathery wartime commander of the U.S. forces in the China-Burma-India Theater during the first grim two years of the war; of a liver ailment; in San Francisco (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...