Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major war. "Infectious jaundice" (as it was commonly called from its most obvious symptom) was regarded as a disease of wartime camps with poor sanitation; peacetime outbreaks were relatively few and usually limited to overcrowded institutions such as orphanages, mental hospitals and prisons. Today, inflammation of the liver as a result of invasion by a virus is becoming a major health problem in the workaday, peacetime...
...more months to develop (three times as long as the infectious variety), are the most obvious differences. Both kinds of hepatitis make the patient equally miserable, causing headache, fever, nausea and loss of appetite. In most cases, jaundice appears. Though hepatitis is rarely fatal, it may cause severe liver damage...
...Hardening of the arteries may be not one disease but many, depending on which arteries are affected, reported Dr. Herman T. Blumenthal of the Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Arteries of the brain, heart and legs are more susceptible to hardening than those of the lungs, liver and kidneys -perhaps because the arteries are made of different types of tissue. Thus, he suggested, the site of the disease may determine its type. Metabolic changes, which have received so much attention, may be the result rather than the cause of the aging and hardening of the arteries...
Died. Jorge Negrete, 42, top-drawer singing star of Mexican cowboy films and one of Latin America's favorite cinemactors, fourth husband (since last year) of Mexico's tempestuous Movie Queen Maria Felix; of a liver ailment; in Hollywood. As Mexicans openly mourned Film Idol Negrete's death, his widow declared "unsuitable" a two-engined transport plane sent by Mexico's President Ruiz Cortines to bring his body home from Los Angeles, instead chartered a four-engined American Airlines DC-6, planned an elaborate public funeral in Mexico City...
Defense Requires Depth. In the wings, ailing Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, who suffers from liver trouble, stayed up all one night to prepare his own climactic speech for the occasion. He hoped France's deputies would at least approve the European Army en principe so that he and Premier Laniel would have something to take with them to the Big Three meeting at Bermuda on Dec. 4. Preparing for the speech, Bidault fortified himself with energy pills...