Word: livers
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Horrified Epicures. French doctors still prescribe it as a health food: it is low in fat-a prime consideration for liver-conscious Frenchmen-and high in protein and minerals. But yogurt has long since transcended the fad-food stigma. Though epicures gag at the thought, some Paris restaurants serve it at dessert time, right alongside the Brie, Chevre and Camembert...
Tupou IV is supposed to be descended from the mythical sky god Tangaroa, but Tongans no longer believe their King can magically heal scrofula or liver disease with a mere touch of his foot...
Died. Primo Camera, 60, briefly heavyweight champion of the world and one of sport's more tragic figures; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Sequals, Italy, 34 years to the day after winning the title. At 6 ft. 5¾ in. and 267 Ibs., "Da Preem" was billed as a giant (though nothing special by today's pro-football standards) in 1930, when U.S. fight promoters and their underworld bosses found him fresh from lifting weights in a European circus. As a fighter he was a joke, but fixed bouts and blaring publicity led to a payday championship...
...million people, chiefly in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Caused by parasitic blood flukes, it is found around marshy deltas, sewage-contaminated lakes and irrigation ditches, where the larvae of the worms lodge in snails and flourish. Invading the human body through the skin, the larvae head for the liver, there mature into flukes that migrate to the small veins of the bowel, where the female lays innumerable eggs every day, sometimes for years. Many eggs are swept into the liver and other organs. They cause irritation and scarring in the liver (which leads to enlargement of the spleen), intestinal...
...flukes. The two reasoned that when a patient is cut open to have his spleen removed, he might as well be rid of the flukes at the same time. They designed a system of tubes to pipe the blood from the vein entering the patient's liver, pumping it through a filter, and returning it to a vein in the leg (see diagram). In order to lure the flukes out of their customary lairs in the intestinal veins, they give patients a single injection of tartar emetic. The flukes, which find the emetic as unpleasant as most human beings...