Word: livers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full length of his arm, would always jerk an involuntary 'Ugh!' out of even the most hardened unfortunate 'seized up to' the grating at the gangway; six blows tore the flesh horribly, while after a dozen the back looked like 'so much putrefied liver.' After a time the bones showed through, blood burst from the bitten tongue and lips of the victim, and, expelled from his lungs, dribbled through his nostrils and ears. ... To be flogged through the Fleet to the tune of the 'Rogue's March' meant almost certain death...
...wrong. The successful revolutionists exiled Gomez & Castro. Seven years later another revolution left Cipriano Castro President of Venezuela and General Gomez Vice President and Minister of War. President Castro's vices and extravagances nearly bankrupted the nation. In 1908 when Castro was in Germany attempting to have his liver repaired, General Gomez and his henchmen seized the country...
...about the jitters into which his detention for 52 days had thrown them. He scoffed the story that Il Duce had taken offense because of rumors that Signor Emanuel had referred to him as "Banjo-Eyes." Describing himself as "a man who, whatever be his faults, has a good liver and a smiling character," irrepressible Guglielmo Emanuel flatly denied ever having called anybody banjo-eyed and vowed he had never before heard the expression. "My Scotch terrier Banjo," he said, "has very-beautiful and tender eyes and is not exophthalmic. ... I am temperamentally unsuited to jibing...
Altogether different was the simultaneous appearance four blocks away of Dean George Koyt Whipple of the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, winner of a Nobel Prize for discovering the value of liver diet in overcoming pernicious anemia (TIME. Nov. 5, 1934). Important doctors completely filled Mount Sinai Hospital's auditorium, listened decorously while Dr. Whipple, his throat raw with a cold, described how blood is formed and regenerated within the body. A significant new fact: infections do not prevent the formation of hemoglobin which the body needs to recover from disease, but. do prevent the release...
...concerning hypertension, or high blood pressure caused by spasmodic constriction in blood vessels. In Science he stated that the brains of hypertensive individuals contain a fluid which causes blood vessels to contract. The vessels most affected are those great ones which supply blood to the stomach, intestines, spleen, pancreas, liver and kidneys. The fluid lies mainly within the all-important cavity of the brain called the betweenbrain...