Word: livers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delirium tremens fatal? Does whiskey drinking cause cirrhosis of the liver? Will too much liquor cause insanity? These and other fascinating questions are answered in Alcohol Explored (Doubleday, Doran; $2.75), a new popular book published last fortnight by famed Yale Physiologists Howard Wilcox Haggard, Elvin Morton Jellinek. Highlights...
Rushed to a Hollywood hospital, he lay mostly in a coma, suffering from myocarditis, chronic nephritis, cirrhosis of the liver, gastric ulcers. When his great friend, Author Gene Fowler, visited him, Barrymore stage-whispered weakly: "Come closer, Gene, and hold my hand . . . lean over, Gene, I want to ask you something. ... Is it true that you're an illegitimate son of Buffalo Bill?" During a later lucid interval he was received back into the Catholic Church. Last week, at 60, with only his brother Lionel at his bedside, John Barrymore died...
Died. John Barrymore, 60; of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscles), with chronic inflammation of the kidneys, cirrhosis of the liver, and gastric ulcers as contributing factors; in Hollywood...
...Liver Cancer, rare in the U.S. and Europe, but the most common form of the disease in the Orient and Africa. Reason: the Oriental diet consists chiefly of rice and vegetables. This diet makes the liver susceptible to cancerous destruction by some unknown agent. In Occidental countries, the liver is resistant to the unidentified cancer factor because it is protected by diets of milk, dairy products, wheat flour. These facts, said Dr. Cramer, show that cancer of the liver, at least, can be prevented by proper food...
John Barrymore was stricken again, and gravely. Suffering from "an abdominal condition resulting from liver and kidney ailments," he was rushed to a Hollywood hospital, next day developed pneumonia, lapsed into semiconsciousness, four days later was still unconscious most of the time. Elder Brother Lionel, as before, subbed...