Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...southern France, on the Italian border near Menton, where he grubbed out a living tending fruit trees and gardens. Nine years ago Benedetto's wife Maddalena had a stillborn child, and a year later the nervous shock led to a disease that paralyzed her legs and attacked her liver...
Occupational Therapy. In Buenos Aires, arrested for undertaking to cure liver ailments at $21.75 a treatment by having her patients dance the mambo, Healer Dona Pancha, 59, paused en route to jail to mix herself a magic potion of liquids, unguents and powders to ward off claustrophobia...
Doctor in the House (J. Arthur Rank; Republic) is a delightful example of formaldehyde humor, the kind of grisly, hospital-corridor hilarity that makes a patient wonder, in the darkness of the night, if that jovial doctor of his really understands that a man's only liver is a very serious organ...
...Known cases of hepatitis (a liver infection accompanied by fever and jaundice) have tripled in the U.S. since 1952, reported the U.S. Public Health Service. The ailment now ranks fifth (behind measles, VD, scarlet fever and streptococcal sore throat, and TB) in prevalence among communicable diseases; last year 49,722 cases were reported (up nearly 50% from 1953). Present standard treatment: rest and a highprotein, liquor-free diet...
What had caused Harris' fatal hemorrhage? The doctors had no exact term for it, but they knew what had happened: Harris' liver had suddenly quit producing the body elements that cause blood to clot. Whether the liver's breakdown was the end result of an infection or earlier injury, the autopsy failed to show...