Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a scientific career which spanned more than 30 years, Dr. Cohn aided in the development of liver extract for the treatment of pernicious anemia, serum albumin for use in cases of battlefield and accident shock, and several other medically important blood products. His work led directly to the recent discovery of gamma globulin as an immunizing agent against polio...
...first drink-it's the first drink that's the dangerous one-you're one drink away from a drunk. A little beer here and there and this horrible social drinking will lead to death, disgrace, and disease. The liver will turn purple, the brain shrink...
...With the demand for gamma globulin already far greater than the supply, three Harvard investigators reported on another use for it: preventing the spread of infectious hepatitis (a liver infection causing jaundice). The Harvardmen studied 81 families where jaundice had broken out, found that the disease spread within the family 48% of the time when G.G. was not given. In families where G.G. was given preventively after the first outbreak, only one additional case turned...
...Capp's comic-strip characters (currently Hairless Joe). The show has a particularly noisy studio audience because each member holds a ticket with the name of one of the four panelists, and the backers of the winning contestant divide $2,000. Sponsor: Carter Products (Little Liver Pills, Rise, Arrid...
...from other benefactors and add them to the Rockefeller funds. But its 56-bed hospital only admits patients with the diseases its doctors happen to be studying at the time. Lately, these have included rheumatic fever, heart and artery disorders, and acute diseases of the respiratory system and the liver. From the institute's laboratories, some of the world's most eminent researchers periodically issue reports of their highly technical findings. For studies of nerve fibers and the transmission of nerve impulses, Director Gasser won (with Dr. Joseph Erlanger) the Nobel Prize...