Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three years ago there was not a single antidiabetic drug that U.S. doctors could prescribe generally, and of two under test, one (carbutamide) was dropped for fear of liver damage. Diabetes victims were slaves to insulin and the needle. Last week 515 experts gathered in Manhattan under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences for the second symposium in seven months on the several drugs now being promoted: three on general prescription,* three being tested on patients under research safeguards...
...poorly on tolbutamide responded to one of the other drugs, and a few who failed on two responded to the third. There was no denying that side effects (skin rashes, nausea, vomiting, heartburn) were more common with chlorpropamide and metahexamide, and there were a few cases of liver damage. Concluded cautious Dr. Bradley: "Further cautious trial appears justified...
Other committee members attacked the bugaboo of cirrhosis of the liver, managed to convince themselves that it was a greatly exaggerated hazard, because in a sampling at a big Paris hospital. 35% of the cirrhosis victims survived the disease. Somehow, this struck the committee as more significant than the fact that almost twice as many died...
...furthering of the house drama. A dining hall, however, is basically a place in which to eat. House drama groups should not be allowed to disrupt dining hall life except immediately before and during their performances. Better planning would lighten the load on the already severely taxed "gracious liver". William H. Nickerson...
...subway, the hash slinger in the window, the misplaced pop crooner in the jazz dives. His capacity for working over a performance or a recording is legendary. When things are going right, he has been known to record all night, until, as Songwriter Lord Burgess says, "you expect his liver to come up with the next note...