Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...larynx closed. In Vancouver, B.C., 17-month-old Mark Bennett, who had toddled into a wasp nest, been stung 477 times, went home from the hospital completely recovered after 20 days of treatment (with penicillin, ACTH and antihistamines). ¶ Four Brooklyn doctors have found that an extract from the liver of pregnant cows gives prompt relief to most of their cases of osteoarthritis (by far the commonest form of arthritis, for which ACTH and cortisone are useless). ¶ After an executive's son fell into a poison ivy patch, researchers of the National Lead Co. went to work, announced...
...cases of kidney and liver damage, where the injured organ might be spared part of its burden for brief, restorative rest...
...fame of a sort. The last of a succession of Tobeys owned by rich, eccentric Miss Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, he slept on a little bed in Miss Wendel's own bedroom in her house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, and ate delicate meals of sliced liver on a tiny table. When Miss Wendel died in 1931, aged 78, Tobey was looked after by two servants. Newsmen dubbed Tobey "the richest dog in the world." But, while Miss Wendel left an estate of $40 million, her will made no mention of Tobey. Two years later, the executors...
...snowhouse, how to catch a seal (wriggle up to it, crawfish-style, pretending to be a seal yourself), and how to alleviate snow blindness by a few searing drops of kerosene in the eyes. He accustomed himself to the Eskimo menu, even to such delicacies as owl meat, scorpionfish liver, frozen raw fish, warm blood, seal guts braided with blubber. Like any true man of the Arctic, he became devoted to his Huskies, in whom he found a "sympathy and tenderness that many humans might envy." And he learned not to underestimate his native competitors, the shamans or medicine...
...mysterious deaths of six babies, from three weeks to seven months old (four in Baltimore, one in Boston, one in New York City) were traced .by Dr. Fisher to boric-acid poisoning. The supposedly soothing chemical had been absorbed through inflamed skin and had damaged tissues in the pancreas, liver and kidneys. Young babies are especially susceptible, Fisher thinks; he has found no fatalities in infants over seven months. Further finding: there is little danger with commercial baby powders in which boric acid is diluted with inert talc...