Word: livers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suggested for adults: 18 ounces (about one loaf) of whole wheat a day, for carbo-lydrates; two-fifths of an ounce of salt, tor maintaining the water balance in body tissues; the same quantity of brewers' yeast, for vitamin B; one-twelfth of an ounce of cod-liver oil, for vitamin A; half a lemon twice weekly, for vitamin C. If two ounces of dried skim-milk powder are available, brewers' yeast can be omitted. Other corrections: growing children need more cod-liver oil and skim-milk powder than adults, but less salt. If lemons or oranges...
...Picasso finally left the Bateau lavoir and the straight bohemian life. He now had money stowed away in his "strong box"-a large wallet kept in an inner pocket and fastened with a safety pin. He also had liver and stomach trouble that has persisted ever since. Moving into i studio apartment on the Boulevard de Clichy with at last some actual comfort, he worked furiously, with less gaiety, with a beginning of the bitter, abstracted air which characterized him later. In 1912 he moved to Montparnasse. In 1914, saddened by the departure of most of his riends...
...year-old Dr. Charles Frederick Code told of his researches on histamine. For them he was awarded the Theobald Smith award of $1,000. Histamine is an organic chemical, a product of protein decomposition. Scientists have long known that histamine is especially concentrated in the cells of the lungs, liver and skin, but they did not know where it came from...
...Congressional action, had already administered repeated injections of soothing reassurance, viz: "This is not a punitive investigation. ... I don't believe in centralized planning." Now were administered three enormous slugs of statistical dope which sent spectators away in droves and made the patient feel that, before having its liver cut out, it was at least going to have its red corpuscles counted one by one. Daily newspapers continued to headline the whole affair as the great "Monopoly Investigation" but Senator O'Mahoney made every effort to have the performance accepted as what he really hoped it would...
...Abrams' blood was 1.72% sugar. That ratio, they decided, came close to the world's all-time sugar high. (Even diabetics rarely have a sugar content higher than one-half of one percent.) In a desperate attempt to rouse her from her coma, and help her liver digest a thick flood of sugar, the physicians pumped 1,000 units of insulin into Elka Abrams' bloodstream, "enough to kill an athlete...