Word: livers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particles are less angular and smoother than those of vegetable (wood) charcoal." The carbon particles he declares "disappear rapidly from the blood stream after their injection and are found lodged in the various organs: first and above all in the lungs, but also in the spleen and liver and, to a less extent, in the bone marrow and kidneys where the endothelial cells seem to absorb them. The carbon particles do not cause any local reaction. ... In short, it may be stated with assurance that this new anti-infectious agent-the intravenous injection of charcoal-is an absolutely harmless procedure...
...chemical symposium in Manhattan last week Dr. Kurt G. Stern of Yale announced that he had isolated a red pigment molecule from liver tissue which weighs 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 units. This is the biggest molecule ever found to be a normal part of vertebrate animals. It was extracted while Dr. Stern and his co-workers were purifying enzymes in a powerful centrifuge, which separates molecules of mixed weight by whirling them at high speed...
...Method is simplicity itself: insertion of a big hollow needle through a quarter-inch puncture into the cavity of the abdomen. The mobility of the liver, stomach, intestines, bladder, ovaries and womb is such that Dr. Ruddock can poke them around by means of a slender telescope inserted through the hollow needle. He can inspect them by the aid of electric lights placed at the tip of the telescope. swallowed into the stomach, or received into the colon. By means of special nippers he can snip out a piece of suspect tissue from an internal organ, immediately seal the wound...
Some of those views: "The surface of small coiled intestines . . . normally . . . appear with a slightly brownish hue, and peristaltic [movement] waves can be noted. ... A small liver with a wrinkled surface and hobnailed irregularities would suggest cirrhosis. Adhesions . . . may be spider web, lacelike, or massive bands. ... When the stomach wall is transilluminated, the stomach appears to observers like a Chinese lantern...
Prolactin was found to induce mammary activity in virgin and castrated female and even in male animals; it induced parental behavior in birds and rats; it increased the basal metabolism (heat production) ; it seemed to affect carbohydrate metabolism through the adrenal glands; it caused growth of liver and intestines; it increased the blood's sugar content; and it inhibited the sex glands, causing pigeons' ovaries to stop producing ova and to reabsorb those already formed, and the testes of males to shrink. This last effect, in Dr. Riddle's opinion, was exerted indirectly-by blocking release...