Word: livers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Simple Onas. To find primitive virtues, the ethnologist must go all the way to the Onas, who lived in cold Tierra del Fuego. Their only clothing was a skin cape. They ate meat, seafood and fungi, washed themselves with liver. They did not drink or smoke, had determinedly rigid standards of chastity. They attached no prestige to wealth. They were free of restraints of government, seldom gathering in large groups except to eat a dead whale. They counted up to five only...
...Table 50 in the Cub Room of the Stork Club, and all along Broadway, the hard, bright, tawdry street that was his beat, the guys and dolls had known he was on borrowed time. But only gaunt Damon Runyon, suffering from cancer, gallstones and cirrhosis of the liver, had known how heavily he had borrowed...
...detected early, Dr. Ivy observed, stomach cancer is far from hopeless. An operation removing part or all of the stomach may prolong life five to ten years. But once a stomach cancer spreads to the liver, the patient is doomed; though man can do without a stomach, he cannot survive without a liver...
Schistosomiasis, caused by a tiny blood fluke which burrows under the skin of river bathers, causes fever, hives, bladder infection, sometimes cirrhosis of the liver. The parasite has a complicated life cycle: its eggs, hatching in warm water, develop larvae which enter snails, there develop to a second, man-attacking larval stage called cercariae or flukes. A single snail may produce 32,000 flukes...
After burrowing into a human victim, the flukes mature in the liver, cuddle up in pairs, migrate to small blood vessels in the bladder or large bowel wall, mate, lay eggs, start a new cycle. It begins when the eggs are discharged in urine or faeces, are picked up by the snails again...