Word: livers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of complete reversal of sex in a full-grown animal was described by Dr. Oscar Riddle, of the Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. A female pigeon was transformed into a male as a result of a tubercular condition affecting the spleen, liver and glands. While sex reversal has been frequently caused in the early egg stage, such changes in adult birds are very rare. It indicates that the hereditary basis of no bodily or mental characteristic may be considered as irrevocably fixed, and it is possible that if the study of glandular...
...keeps going oxidation, movement and the other vital processes. The greater the difference in electrical potential, the greater energy the body possesses. Work spends it. Fatigue makes the difference less. Sleep restores it. With death the difference of potential vanishes. The brain cells have the most positive electricity, the liver cells the most negative. Emotions are stimuli releasing currents of electricity along certain paths...
...vitamins A and B, they became fat, sleek and healthy, but practically all of them were sterile. When fresh green lettuce leaves were added to their menu, the sterile rats produced litters. Drs. Evans and Bishop found this X-substance also in the whole-wheat grain, egg yolk, beef liver and some other foods, but not in milk, the otherwise perfect food. The absence of Vitamin X affects the reproductive powers of the male, as well as the female rat. This vitamin can be extracted from the wheat embryo with ethyl alcohol and ether and a daily dose...
...province since 1913, though this is probably largely due to better diagnosis and popular enlightenment, and it is estimated that there are 2,500,000 cases in Bengal alone. The symptoms are: remittent fever, emaciation, roughening of, the hair and especially enlargement of the spleen and liver. There are several disturbances of the blood and the endocrine system...
...discreditable plot of the Duke of Buckingham's-the abduction of the beautiful actress, Sylvia Farquharson, for his Grace's amorous purposes. But the vile act once accomplished, and the well known Sylvia discovered to be his boyhood sweetheart, Holies proved properly heroic-spitted Buckingham in the liver-wing-suffered a terrible beating from that gentleman's lackeys- nursed Sylvia through the plague, then raging-escaped from a dead-cart-and generally conducted himself in such proper d'Artagnan fashion that it seemed only fair for Mr. Sabatini to reward him with Sylvia's hand...