Word: livers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pneumonia can be caused by: 1) constant use of oily nose drops; 2) nightly doses of mineral oil for constipation; 3) forced feedings of cod-liver or halibut-liver oil to rebellious children. Often the oil slides down the throat into the lungs, where it clogs up air sacs, inflames delicate tissues, forms abscesses and scars. Victims develop a hacking cough, run a low fever. Lipid or oil pneumonia is difficult to diagnose, for few physicians know much about it, and different oils cause different symptoms. In old people oil pneumonia is sometimes mistaken for cancer of the lung. Pneumonia...
Meantime, Dr. Paul Eby Steiner of the University of Chicago was working on a different track. Since human bile salts are close chemical relatives of the cancer-producing synthetics, he concentrated on the liver. Last week in Science he announced: "An extract has been prepared from the livers of persons who died of cancer, which on ... injection into mice produced sarcomas (cancers) at the site of injection...
...burlesque, satire, medieval curiosa and gentle moralizing wander countless strange folk, such as the Cockney knight, Sir Meliagrance ("Yes, Ma'am, in 'arf a minute"). Typical episode: Lancelot stuck his sword in the ground, and went over to examine the wound. . . . "You've cut open my liver" said the man accusingly...
Diabetes is a disease of combustion. In diabetes, carbohydrates are rushed through the body without being digested, or warehoused in the liver. Involved in this condition are two glands: 1) the little islands of Langerhans in the pancreas, which secrete insulin, a hormone essential for carbohydrate digestion; 2) the anterior pituitary. Latest medical theory is that somehow the pituitary hormone, working overtime, stimulates the islands of Langerhans to febrile activity. First they pour forth enormous quantities of insulin; later their cells become exhausted, die from overwork...
...gall bladder is a "pear-shaped sack . . . [which] hangs from the under surface of the liver like a droplight from a ceiling." The liver manufactures from 30 to 50 ounces of bile every day, and the overflow (up to one ounce) pours into the gall bladder. From this tank, as well as from the liver, the bile trickles into the small intestine, where it helps digest fats...