Word: livered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dolorimeter is also used on people who already have a pain. It can measure pain anywhere in the body-Marat's itch, Prometheus' pecked liver and Job's ulcers would have been equally fair game. The machine is applied to the patient's leg and the squeeze increased beyond the threshold, up & up until the agonized shin bone makes the patient forget his neuralgia or whatever was hurting him. A reading at that point gauges the severity of the neuralgia, the sores or the itch. By comparing the first day's pain intensity with successive...
...Stockbreeders pay great attention to the sires of their cattle. We should attend to our fathers," said London's Dr. George De Swiet last week. He told a working women's conference that he himself took a special diet (emphasis on cod-liver oil and orange juice) before marriage, and recently advised his son to do the same...
...University of Rochester's medical school. In the early '30s he noticed that baby chicks on a restricted diet had tiny hemorrhages under their skins. Their blood, he found, contained very little prothrombin, a blood element necessary for clotting. He cured them by feeding them pigs' liver, alfalfa, cabbage, spinach, etc. In 1935 he announced that he had isolated the curative substance from the foods, called it vitamin K after his scientific word for it-Koagulationsvitamine...
...Dowson put an end to his own misery with an overdose of chloral. A few months later his mother hanged herself. Soon afterward "Missie" married one of her father's waiters. Dowson fled to France, declaring: "I have no lungs left to speak of, an apology for a liver, and a broken heart...
...Busch's wartime investigations of some of the world's most foreign nations : Argentina, the Union of South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, England and Ireland. It does nothing to dissipate their foreignness. Of Argentina he reports: "Solemn in mien, Argentinians are addicted to dark clothes, funerals, and liver trouble. . . . Going about with downcast eyes, they are fussy about floors and pavements. These are elaborately made, in little slippery squares and patterns." Of South Africa: "Large animals, while more numerous than they should be, are not an influential segment of the population. . . . None of the animals in South Africa...