Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...butamide, given by mouth for the relief of diabetes (TIME, Oct. 29), Indianapolis' Eli Lilly & Co. asked 2,900 doctors who have been testing it on 10,000 patients to abandon the trial. Most disturbing was a report that-at least in animals-car-butamide can cause liver damage which might be worse than the diabetes it is meant to control. Lilly was already experimenting with other promising drugs...
...marked by acute flare-ups with excruciating pain in swollen, inflamed joints. In rare cases, it can threaten life by depositing uric acid crystals in the kidneys or heart. Sufferers must avoid foods rich in purines-yeast, herring roe, sardines, asparagus, and many organ meats such as sweetbreads, liver, heart and kidneys. Other treatment: colchicine (an ancient remedy extracted from the autumn crocus), ACTH, phenylbutazone (a powerful but potentially dangerous drug). Another drug, probenecid, is no good for acute attacks and may actually aggravate them, but paradoxically is the best long-term treatment to keep the disease quiescent...
...guess and by God, gave aspirin by the carload to ease the pain of inflamed, swollen and exquisitely tender joints. In the 19305 it was found that, for no known reason, injections of certain gold salts brought the disease under control. Treatment was fraught with danger of damage to liver and kidneys. But the net effect was beneficial in perhaps 40% of cases...
...quicker to see the fatal corruption that lies beneath. This disquieting first novel by a French physician has such a theme: it tells of Palabaud, who has spent sunlit years in Tahiti and has now come home to the bourgeois grey of France to die of an enormously swollen liver...
Probably the bitterest battle is being fought between Carter's Little Liver Pills and the FTC. Since IQ43 the commission has been after Carter's on grounds that the product is nothing more than an ordinary laxative, with "no therapeutic effect" on the liver. The case has been endlessly dragged through the courts is still unsettled. Last week FTC again demanded that Carter Products, Inc. drop the word "liver" from the brand name. Sample Carter commercial: "Five New York doctors now have proved you can break the laxative habit . . . Carter's Little Liver Pills improve the flow...