Word: livers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Murphy, Dr. George R. Minot '08, professor of Medicine, and Dr. George H. Whipple, of Rochester University, shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1934 when they discovered that liver and liver extracts are good remedies for anemia...
...Beverage alcohol (C 2 H 5 OH) does not cause cirrhosis of the liver, heart trouble, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, Bright's disease. It does not even cause d.t.s (the drunkard's deficiency in diet causes the illusion of snakes). It is only slightly habit-forming (smoking and overeating are far more...
Well knowing that vitamin B is essential for healthy nerves, Dr. Muncy bolstered up 50 neurosyphilitics with various forms of vitamin B before they got their routine tryparsamide injections. Some were given doses of cod-liver oil, as well as two yeast tablets a day; others were also given intravenous injections of the synthetic vitamin. Only one of the 50 suffered any disturbance of vision. When the vitamin was given to a number of tryparsamide "shock victims" whose eyes were already failing, they reported a quick and remarkable improvement...
Over slivers of goose liver at Horcher's in Berlin, Publisher Conde Nast told Vogue's Editor Edna Woolman Chase and Vanity Fair's Editor Frank Crowninshield that he had just found the ideal art director for his U. S. string of swank magazines. The latest candidate had clinched the job by the calm disdain with which he dismissed able, dapper Publisher Nast's theories on illustration and makeup. This Young Turk was in fact a young Turk, by name Mehemed Fehmy Agha. That was ten years ago. Last week PM, the lively little magazine...
...Essential for the prevention of rickets in children, Vitamin D regulates the amount of calcium and phosphorus which the body uses for building bones and teeth. Only vitamin which does not originate in plant tissue, vitamin D occurs most abundantly in oily fish livers, is generated in the body by ultraviolet rays of the sun. Normal U. S. adults get all the vitamin D they need when they bask on beaches, and, if they drink plenty of milk, need not worry about calcium regulation. But to make best use of the calcium in their diet, pregnant women and children need...