Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Trade Commission has been battling with the makers of Carter's Little Liver Pills for 15 years without a definite decision on FTC charges of false claims. It has been forced to hold 149 hearings, run up a transcript of 11,000 pages and 1,000 medical exhibits-at a cost of $1,000,000 to the taxpayers...
...Wright, casting around for a drug to prevent clot formation (none had yet been proved effective in man), appealed to Nobel Prizewinner Charles H. Best, co-discoverer of insulin. He wanted some of the heparin that University of Toronto laboratories had just begun to extract from beef lungs and liver. Dr. Best sent all he could spare...
...Another German compound, carbutamide, was abandoned in the U.S. by Eli Lilly & Co. because it caused liver damage, was suspected of speeding the deaths of eight patients...
...punishment for various sins which needn't be gone into here, Prometheus was chained to a rock in the Caucasus. He was assigned a vulture to peck at his liver on a nine-to-five basis, and those were the days before coffee breaks...
...believe," said the vulture primly, "that whatever is worth doing is worth doing well." He gave Prometheus a dirty look and went back to work. But he stayed an hour overtime that day, worked clean through the liver, and got a good start on the pyloric sphincter. Prometheus went right on thinking about moral uplift, but he was careful to do so in silence...