Word: livers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Arthur Prince, 66, British ventriloquist, round-the-world trouper for 43 years; of a liver ailment; in London. He asked that his bluejacketed dummy, "Sailor Jim," be buried with...
Died. Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, 80, Hirohito's Polonius and Premier on V-J day; of a liver ailment; in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. A cautious navyman, lie was hated as a "moderate" by the military jingoists, who left him for dead in the 1936 young-officer insurrection, hounded him into hiding after the 1945 surrender...
...them, and injected it into the monkey's muscles and chest. No other monkey had ever been so swamped with malaria. After seven days Dr. Shortt performed a careful autopsy. Said he: "I went over every conceivable piece of that monkey." In the monkey's liver he found the parasites, each one one-thousandth of an inch long...
...monkey malaria (Plasmodium cynomolgi) is like the parasite that causes most human malaria (Plasmodlum vivax"). He found a mental patient who was about to be given malaria anyway for treatment of general paralysis. The patient and his wife agreed that doctors could take out a small piece of his liver by a minor operation, seven days after he had been bitten by infected mosquitoes. At 5 o'clock one morning Dr. Shortt got the sliver of liver, rushed to his laboratory and worked until 11 that night. Sure enough, he found the incubating malaria parasites...
Next step is to find a drug that will kill the parasites in the liver before they have time to erupt into the bloodstream. Dr. Shortt, 61, is willing to leave that detail to the chemists; he has an idea about African sleeping sickness that he wants to get right to work...