Word: livers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nicotinic acid, one of the elements of the Vitamin B complex, is found in liver, yeast, milk, green vegetables, fish and lean meat. It is a cure for pellagra, a diet-deficiency disease common in the southern U. S. but virtually unknown in Britain. Since the filmy, bleeding gums of trench mouth are similar to the symptoms of early pellagra, Dr. King had a hunch that trench mouth, too, might be caused by nicotinic acid deficiency which broke down gum tissue, paved the way for bacterial invasion. So he fed small amounts of the acid dissolved in water...
...Bolstered by grants from several learned societies, the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, under the leadership of Dr. Winfred Overholser of Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, set projects stirring in a half-dozen U. S. universities. Members tackled such problems as the Drunkard's liver, stomach, love for his mother...
...Liver, Stomach, Kidneys. No one has ever proved the old contention that alcohol causes cirrhosis (hardening) of the liver. It is merely known to be very bad for those who already have cirrhosis. Although years of toping may cause chronic gastritis (inflammation of the stomach lining) and lead to cancer, most doctors still believe that small amounts of alcohol, like the old "stomachic bitters," are fine for the digestion...
...Schuylers now broil their meat lightly, instead of eating the raw, bloody, buttered beef and liver they used to.) Her parents were not surprised at Philippa's precocity, which began when she crawled 18 inches at the age of a month, read, wrote her name, spelled 150 long words at two. At four she could, and persistently did, spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-volcanoniosis.* A pianist since she was a little over three, Philippa Schuyler has repeatedly won prizes in tournaments of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and in competitions of young listeners to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
...Supercharger." Glycogen, a form of starch manufactured in the liver, is the substance which the body uses for quick energy. When glycogen is consumed, lactic acid is produced-mostly a waste product since a good part of it breaks down into carbon dioxide and water. But some lactic acid is reconverted into glycogen, which is then available for further energy release. Last week Dr. George Bogdan Kistiakowsky and five co-workers of Harvard compared this operation to that of a gasoline engine supercharger, which uses the energy of exhaust gases to pump air at high pressure into the firing cylinders...