Word: livers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reason: carotene, a yellow pigment occurring in association with chlorophyll in green plants, is transformed by the body (probably the liver) into vitamin A, which insures sharp human vision at night...
Died. William F. Gettle, 54, oil-wealthy Arcadia (Calif.) kidnap victim in 1934; of chronic liver trouble; in Beverly Hills...
Biologist Ely nurtured a colony of mixed (Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria on sodium phosphate whose phosphorus was radioactive. Next he injected them into the tail veins of rats. Few hours later he analyzed the rats' organs for radioactivity, found it greatest in the liver and the lungs, weakest in the brain. Concluded Ely: "The brain, apparently, has an effective means of preventing bacteria from entering it in large numbers." Further significant conclusions will probably appear as work progresses with this new technique...
...local anesthetic, cut open the arteries high on each leg, broke up the blood clot with a special probe, then sucked out the pieces with a long, slender tube. As soon as his blood vessels were stitched up, the patient was given transfusions and large injections of heparin, a liver extract which prevents clotting. Immediately after the operation, said Drs. Ravdin and Wood, "the color and temperature of the right leg returned to normal." His left leg recovered more slowly. For almost two weeks after the operation, heparin was constantly dripped into his veins...
...Diabetes is a disease of combustion: carbohydrates are rushed through the body, poured out in the urine, without being properly digested or warehoused in the liver. Four groups of glands may be involved in this condition: the tiny islands of Langerhans in the pancreas, which secrete insulin, a hormone essential for carbohydrate digestion; the adrenals, thyroid and anterior pituitary, which seem to act antagonistically to the islets. Exactly how they work, or what causes them to go berserk, no one knows...