Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since last month's national elections, in which most of his own candidates won in a walkaway. Strongman Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat has been casting around for a suitable Premier. Last week, between bouts with a chronically bad liver, Marshal Sarit named his man: stocky, mild-mannered, 46-year-old Lieut. General Thanom Kittikhachorn (whose polysyllabic last name means "widespreadreputation...
With the country safely confided to hands he could trust, Strongman Sarit announced that he will journey to the U.S. this month for 1) examination and treatment of his liver at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, and 2) a call on President Eisenhower...
...were bafflingly negative. After an average of a month in the hospital, most of the airmen were rated well enough to return to quarters. But before the last were out, many of the first cases were back in the hospital. The second time round, their aches and pains and liver enlargement were worse. Many were kept in the hospital as long as six months. Then, rated still unfit for duty, several were sent out of the service on medical discharges...
...Twirling Dials, $40. The tariff was stiffer in Bryan, where Mrs. Keene complained of headache and stomachache. There, Naturopath Charles Moore told her she still had diphtheria toxins in her throat from a childhood attack, that she also had colitis; her spleen, pancreas and liver were not working right; she was anemic and her pulse was too slow. He sold her special foods for $9, and for the examination (done by twiddling the dials of a machine that looked like a short-wave radio) he charged...
Many researchers started their patients on too heavy doses, so that they suffered dryness of the mouth, giddiness on standing (from lowered blood pressure), constipation, impotence and even jaundice-a warning of possibly severe liver damage. But most patients could tolerate lower doses, and there were no lasting ill effects after the drug was stopped...