Word: livers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooks, 65, had just returned to Manhattan from Miami. Feeling uncommonly weary he at first decided that he had caught the grippe in the South. But three other able diagnosticians and three able surgeons, all six professors in their specialties, decided that their doctor-patient suffered with an abscessed liver...
Surgeon Erdmann got down to Dr. Brooks's liver. At that point in an operation on an ordinary patient Surgeon Erdmann habitually turns to his audience, explains his intent, waits for applause. Over Dr. Brooks there was no such dramatic byplay. The surgeon swiftly lanced the abscess. Pus spurted out. In his intensity Surgeon Erdmann cut his own finger twice. Then he and his surgical team of professors speedily cleaned up Dr. Brooks's abscess, inserted a rubber drain, closed the incision...
...colds as many manufacturers of candies and drugs claim. The only effect Vitamin A has on colds is to increase secretions from mucous membranes of nose and throat. Those secretions kill invading germs, may prevent a cold, if germs actually cause colds. His advice was not to drink cod-liver oil, in which Vitamin A is usually sold, as a cold-preventive...
Third day's honors went to Pointer Ufton Congressman, obedient and stylish, but tired at the finish after a hard run over rain-drenched ground. His brace mate disgraced herself by chasing off after a covey of deer. Next good heat of the stake was run by Sulu, liver-&-white pointer bitch owned by Andrew G. C. Sage, whose Rapid Transit, champion in 1933, had run disappointingly the first day. Last year, Sulu had the honor of working in the runoffs as brace mate to Homewood Flirtatious the day Homewood Flirtatious won the Trials. Last week Sulu found...
...ostrich egg may be considered a single living cell. Big, too, is a single nerve cell which runs along an elephant's spine. The structure of these monster cells is practically the same as a microscopic cell in a rabbit's liver, of which some 980 are required to span one inch...