Word: livers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...synthetic vitamin K, U.S. dentists might have to go out of business: tooth cavities, which afflict 95% of the U.S. population, might be prevented. So claimed Chemist Leonard Samuel Fosdick* & colleagues of Northwestern University in a preliminary report in Science last week. Vitamin K, found naturally in alfalfa, hog liver, cabbage, tomatoes and possibly in unrefined sugar, is valuable for its properties as a blood-clotter, especially in hemorrhages of newborn infants. When taken into the mouth, Dr. Fosdick discovered, vitamin K serves another function-it prevents sugars from turning into tooth-corroding acid...
...diet. Last fortnight Science News Letter reported some results of their investigation among 207 Negro school children in Oktibbeha County, Miss. At least a quarter of the children admitted eating dirt. Most of the dirt-eaters had less of the iron-rich foods, such as molasses, mustard greens, liver, in their diet than did the non-dirt-eaters. And as far as the scientists could find out, the craving for dirt (known as geophagia) has nothing to do with hookworm, as many doctors firmly believe, for hookworm is very rare in geophagous Oktibbeha County...
Sprue, a wasting sickness (cause unknown) that chiefly attacks white people in towns & cities. It produces constipation, melancholy, low blood pressure, muscle cramps, diminution in the size of the liver. Constantly increasing in the temperate zones of Latin America, sprue seems to be related to vitamin deficiency, can be checked by an increase of fruits and vegetables in the diet...
...coils of intestine cut to ribbons by flying glass, or loops of gut hanging out of slashed stomachs. Sometimes, although no missiles penetrated the abdominal cavity, indriven fragments of bone did as much damage as bullets. Concussion of a nearby bomb often produced fatal internal hemorrhages, torn spleen and liver. "Immersion blast"-internal injury inflicted on sailors in the water near an exploding depth bomb-sometimes produced ripped intestines, peritonitis, bleeding from ears and mouth...
...There is no exact knowledge of the action of alcohol on the liver." Cirrhosis (fibrous hardening) of the liver is a very rare disease, somewhat more common in drunkards than in teetotalers. But no one knows what causes...