Word: livers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year ago (TIME, May 26), his death was prematurely announced; but it was not until last January that he was taken to the Rockefeller Hospital at Peking and declared to be in the advanced stages of cancer of the liver...
...Trotzky is temperamentally a dictator who believes himself destined to rule the world. Zinoviev is a gay liver, a lover of wine, champagne and good cheer. He has suffered a lot and knew privation in his youth; and now abandons himself licentiously to pleasures. The dancers of the old Russian ballet and the beautiful women of Leningrad are flattered to be the friends of Zinoviev. Being very generous, nothing is too precious for his friends. Pearl necklaces, Imperial jewels, famous paintings, Gobelin tapestries are to be found today in the hands of the women who enjoy Zinoviev's friendship...
Cancer Once again the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen, "perpetual rebel" was announced. Once more it was denied.* But an operation was performed upon the body of the Chinese leader. It was discovered that his liver was cancerous. Doctors said his case was hopeless. Unkind critics said that there was now real hope for peace and unity in China...
Artificial ulcers in the intestinal tracts of dogs were produced when the secretions of the stomach were allowed to flow without first being mixed with the juices of the liver, pancreas and duodenum. The ulcers can be cured if the gastric juice is prevented from passing over them. The experiments proved that, if gastric juice is not neutralized, it attacks the tissues at the base of the stomach.-Dr. F. C. Mann, Mayo Foundation...
Elsewhere. Scientific investigators elsewhere, dealing with the problem of rickets, have made further discoveries as to the value of various curative oils. At the University of Wisconsin, it was found that fats other than cod-liver oil, which are ordinarily of no avail in affecting the disease, possess curative properties after they have been subjected to ultraviolet rays. In Manhattan, one Alfred F. Hess and other researchers noted that the potency of cod-liver oil to prevent rickets is greatly increased after the oil has undergone radiation...