Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taught him. When Johnny was in the sixth grade, his father gave him a helmet, and. like other millions of American youngsters, Johnny soon found himself playing football and filling out. A good deal of personal determination entered into it. His mother remembers that Johnny went on a cod-liver-oil binge, once drank 17 pints of it in a single week. "Do you know who his idol was in those days?" asks Mrs. Lattner. "It was Superman." Johnny recalls: "By the time I was in the eighth grade, nobody picked on me any more...
...miles apart, the two researchers tackled some of the most complex and fundamental problems in the biological processes by which food is converted into energy. Krebs had already shown that urea, the end product of nitrogen metabolism, is formed through a cycle of chemical reactions in the liver. Soon he was delving into a still more important cycle, by which products of sugar and fatty acids are broken down into a group of chemicals including pyruvic acid. This acid is oxidized or "burned" to form a go-between chemical now known as acetyl coenzyme A. Other acids, notably citric...
...symptom, and often worthless: an adult male should get all the iron he needs from a normal diet, unless he is losing blood; so should a woman, barring unusual menstrual difficulties. The iron deficiency may be a clue which will lead the thorough physician to a kidney disorder, a liver infection, inflammation of the heart membrane, or even an unsuspected cancer...
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR. CABOT, the Peronista paper La Epoca wrote: "A friendly handshake after a prolonged misunderstanding ... is often worth as much as a good liver treatment." In Guatemala, the Communist Tribnna Popular snarled: "Insolent intervention...
...specialists, and nowhere else. Then his doctors told him to retire: his high blood pressure might kill him any day. Dr. Cohn simply dosed himself with palliative drugs and kept on working. His first great success so far as medicine was concerned came in 1927 when he extracted from liver the substance that controls pernicious anemia. It meant that patients could take medicine, instead of having to eat a pound or more of liver every...