Word: livers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...child out of four will have a deficiency of ceruloplasmin-a little-understood blue component of the blood, in which eight atoms of copper are bound into a large protein molecule. A deficiency of ceruloplasmin leads to a piling up of copper in such sensitive organs as the liver and brain...
Only recently have doctors been able to slow down Wilson's disease with drugs to leach copper out of the body, and a low-copper diet (no liver, mushrooms, nuts or oysters). How much better it would be, say Drs. Irmin Sternlieb and I. Herbert Scheinberg of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to spot the inherited defect before illness has time to develop...
...nearly two years in New Delhi as U.S. Ambassador, debating with Indian neutralists, Harvard Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, 54, was getting "a little uncomfortable at the implication that those who help you are the threat to your policy." Now, weary from 16-hour days and suffering from an undefined liver complaint, he will return from the New Frontier and go back to Harvard next fall...
...Powell is one of the House's most notorious absentees: he has responded on the average to less than half the roll-call votes over the last decade. All this has contributed to the feeling expressed last week by one disgusted colleague: "He is a demagogue, a high liver, a playboy and a charlatan.'' Said another: "I don't know exactly how you decide who's the worst Congressman, but Adam's certainly in the finals...
...medical dangers claimed are of two sorts: physiological and psychological. To guard against physiological injury, the researchers tried to find out where physiological injury might occur (e.g., heart or liver), and in early studies, required a medical examination: "Subjects who volunteered for the study were given medical screening by the University Health Services or the prison psychiatrist [some subjects were prisoners], and psychological screening by a group of clinical psychologists." (R.Metzner, G. Litwin, G. Weil, "The relation of expectation and setting to experiences with psilocybin: a questionnaire study," dittoed, 1962). After a period in which no ill effects were reported...