Word: livers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next to typhus, Iran's biggest menace is leishmania, a mysteriously infectious disease (causing extreme enlargement of spleen and liver, and grey pigmentation of the skin) which kills thousands of natives (who call it kala azar or "black disease"). Leishmania in another form leaves thousands of survivors scarred by disfiguring...
...burn cure contains hormone-like substances which are extracted from yeast and fish-liver oils and stimulate the growth of any sort of cells. Applying this...
...applied to human wounds to accelerate healing. At first the biodynes were created by exposing tissues from rat and chicken embryos to ultraviolet rays. This injured some of the cells and induced production of the healing substances in them. The scientists now extract the biodynes from 1) fish-liver oils and 2) heated yeast cells. The extracts are mixed with a petrolatum and lanolin base, sell for $3 a pound. Dr. Sperti said last week he could produce 1,000 pounds of "Biodyne" ointment a day if he had a priority for fish oils. The Chicago Fire Department has already...
...rough day. "Perhaps, also," says Dixon, "he had a # Seamen Pastula, Dixon, Aldrich. horror of being eaten [by his mates]." Tony was the thinnest and thought he might be the first to die. Nevertheless, he agreed with the other two that "the survivors should eat the heart, liver and other such organs" of whichever one went first. Says Dixon: "Today I don't believe that any of us had a real intention of stooping...
...civil population. He could not say definitely what the disease is nor what causes it. (Jaundice, usually thought of as a disease, is really a symptom-coloration of the skin by bile pigments. When a man has jaundice, his doctor has still to figure out whether he has a liver disease, an intestinal upset, a blood disorder...