Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William H. J. Summerskill indulged in a tour de force of long-range diagnosis came to the conclusion that the fool may have been right. Physician Summerskill worked it out this way: Aguecheek was drunk every night. His tippling could easily have caused cirrhosis of the liver Even Sir Toby Belch, no pathologist but a fellow tosspot, suspected this: "For Andrew, if he were opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the anatomy." A cirrhotic liver is relatively bloodless...
Modern medicine now goes to the mind of the matter. A cirrhotic liver may fail to filter some nitrogen compounds which the body makes in the process of digesting protein foods such as meat. These compounds so affect the nervous system that a diet rich in protein will play hob with the intellectual power of such a patient...
...excruciating) inflames the shoulder; some forms of exercise, e.g., golf and fishing, in which there is less strain on the right shoulder muscles, are not difficult. The President's physicians have used a variety of treatments, e.g., deep heat, X ray, exercise and generous gulps of cod-liver oil. The bursitis is not dangerous, but the pain is still there, and it sometimes keeps the President from sleeping...
...student once said, "the silence is deafening"), he built up two great hospitals, a school of nursing, clinics for cerebral palsy and psychiatry, turned Rochester into one of the top medical centers in the nation. Meanwhile, he also found time to study the indispensable role of certain foods, principally liver, in the formation of hemoglobin-a discovery to which thousands of victims of pernicious anemia today owe their lives...
...mine about the rewards of reading [May 23], you seem to have opened a veritable sluice gate of correspondence . . . Many of those who wrote appear to think that I was denouncing television . . . This would put me in the unhappy position of the man who was allergic to his own liver . . . There are many programs on television today from which any man can draw profit and delight . . . My plea was for selective viewing and for that sort of balanced intellectual diet that would not forget the essential proteins and vitamins that can be found on the printed page and nowhere else...