Word: livers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some patients were running doctors ragged with petty requests. ("I always use Carter's Little Liver Pills. Please can I have a chit so that I can get them free?") A few diehard doctors, still hoping that the act would be a bust, were blandly prescribing champagne, oysters, whiskey and rum for their patients-at government expense. Some patients were unreasonable. One physician, forced to cancel his evening office hours because of a difficult, ten-hour delivery, was greeted at his surgery next morning by four threatening hoodlums; he was now a servant of the people, they told...
Cramp her larynx, lung, and liver...
...that certain co-enzymes are needed to get the fire started. But the identity of the co-enzymes was unknown. Biochemist Lehninger discovered that the same enzymes which oxidize carbohydrates also oxidize fat. He found out where the burning takes place, too. In the cells of the liver (where half the body's fat is oxidized) are small, granular structures called mitochondria. The mitochondria, Lehninger announced, are the cellular power plants "or stokers or burners" for the combustion...
...discovery may lead to a better understanding of a number of diseases in which fat is not burned normally: jaundice, hardening of the arteries, a liver disease called infectious hepatitis. There is also tentative evidence that cancer cells use fat abnormally...
Samples of what they called "animal protein factor" have been tried out on patients at Western Reserve University's hospital in Cleveland. Two aged women, extremely ill with pernicious anemia,' responded as well as patients respond to liver extract. The discovery is important. For the first time, a laboratory has produced from commonly occurring bacteria a substance with anemia-treating properties, and pernicious anemia patients are freed from the ups & downs of the meat market. Liver extract, obtained from cow livers, varies in quality. The new product will eventually be mass-produced and comparatively cheap. The animal protein...