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Only 39 years old, Dr. Uzman was one of the country's foremost neurologists. His most important work led to the determination of the cause of Wilson's disease, or hepatolenticular degeneration. This is a genetic desease involving cirrhosis of the liver (progressive destruction of the cells), a smoky brownish ring around the corner of the eye, and a progressive degeneration of part of the brain known as the lenticular nucleus, resulting in tremors and rigidity of the body...
Also while at the Children's Cancer Research Foundation, an affiliate of the Children's Hospital Medical Center, Dr. Uzman investigated another so-called lipid storage disease, gargoylism, a rare disease producing gargoyle-like deformities of face and body as well as disorders of brain, liver, and spleen. The disease is inborn and leads to mental deficiency...
...nervous system is somehow involved in so many diseases and disorders, from fleeting, no-account headaches to crippling paralyses, that doctors are often at a loss to know what part of the patient to treat first. Some forms of liver disease, for example, cause emotional disturbances that can be mistaken for mental illness or signs of brain damage. Merely to diagnose many cases in which the nervous system is involved takes an almost infinite variety of sensitive electronic devices. Treatment calls for gadgetry too, and research calls for still more...
When they see a patient whose skin has turned yellow, doctors automatically suspect liver disease. In virtually all such cases, the white of the eye is similarly discolored. But a pair of Cincinnati ophthalmologists were puzzled when a patient appeared with a yellow glow all over his face and body, extending even to his palms and soles. The whites of his eyes, however, were unaffected, thus ruling out liver disease. It turned out, report Drs. Ira A. Abrahamson Sr. and Jr. in the A.M.A.'s Archives of Ophthalmology, that the man knew he had cataracts. Like night fighter pilots...
...oldtime, nontechnical methods are not neglected either. Missile-sniffing dogs are getting intensive training. A pair named Dingo and Count are being schooled to locate small missile fragments coated with paint mixed with squalene, a noisome extract of shark-liver oil. The dogs have already learned to ignore coyote and rabbit scents, and they can whiff a shark-flavored fragment half a mile downwind. Vernon Miller, chief of the range instrumentation division, thinks that the dog detectives will be over the research hump and busy at serious work within six months...