Word: livers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most versatile of the brood, Vitamin A is the only one which is synthesized by animals from their plant food. It is found in the livers and yellow body fat of most animals, can be stored up by man for many months. For adequate production and storage of vitamin A, a diet should be abundant in "thin green leaves," bright yellow fruits, vegetables such as carrots, corn, sweet potatoes. Vitamin A prevents night blindness, a failing as common in the U. S. today as in ancient Egypt, where diet-wise physicians cured thousands of cases with liver. Few persons realize...
...stubborn patients, however, were given a further course of injections. Along with pure vitamin B 1 they received large intramuscular doses of concentrated liver extract. All of them were soon relieved...
Ascitic fluid is a clear yellow serum, similar to blood, but more watery, containing neither red nor white blood corpuscles. It collects in the swollen abdomens of persons suffering from dropsy, a condition resulting from cirrhosis of the liver or certain types of heart disease. To relieve pain the patient's abdomen is tapped, and the fluid drained out. Often as much as 410 ounces is withdrawn, and the patient is glad...
...Having lowered the physical requirements, Army officials last week reported the successful results of an experiment to feed some 1,900 skinny youths up to requirements. At two camps they have been getting a cup of tea and a biscuit before getting up; a breakfast of porridge, hot milk, liver and onion sauce, bread, butter and marmalade; a morning collation of an apple and milk; a lunch of meat pie, cabbage, mashed potatoes, soup, figs and custard; a good big high tea and a dinner of fish and chips, tea, bread and milk. Result: 1,400 have passed the Army...
...early 17th Century the way the blood circulates, was "a little man with twinkling* SURGEONS ALL-Rich & Cowan, London (18s.). eyes. . . . When he was lecturing he had a little wand of whalebone tipped with silver," which he used to point out organs he was dissecting. "A lecture on the liver ... he transformed into a subject of vital interest by ... references to bearbaiting and cockfighting, football and the ballet, and a strange bird in his Majesty's aviary. . . . Then he would conclude with a spirited attack on the fashion of lacing young girls till their waists were compressed . . . and their...