Word: livers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patient with cancer of the large bowel. A colostomy relieved an intestinal obstruction. A recurrence of cancer nearby was relieved by X-ray treatment. When the abdominal cavity began to fill with fluid, radioactive phosphorus checked the process. Bronchopneumonia was cured by an antibiotic. Cancer spread to the liver, and again X-rays were used. As liver function progressively declined, many medical measures supported the patient. If some of these treatments had been withheld, said Dr. Karnofsky, the patient would have died within weeks or days. Successively, they kept him alive for ten months. Dr. Karnofsky asked, "When should...
...many ads are strident, misleading, dull or offensive. "People are irritated by some ads on TV," says Charles Brower, outspoken president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. "The audience gets bored when yet more intestines appear on the screen as the evening goes on. Who wants to wake up his liver bile all the time?" Cunningham & Walsh President Carl W. Nichols faults some of his colleagues on grounds of creativity as well as esthetics: "I am repeatedly appalled at the lack of ideas in today's advertising. Much of it is shamefully sameful...
...muscles. Then the most vulnerable points, said Dr. Moore, are in the diaphragm and the muscles between the ribs. And the effects are most severe on breathing and coughing. The cause of death in surgical patients, he said, is seldom found in the heart, brain, kidneys or liver. For the final mechanism of death, surgeons should look to the lungs...
...byproduct of disease. Last spring Parker reported to Fort Worth's Carter Blood Center complaining of weakness. Physicians found that he had hemochromatosis-a rare condition caused by excessive iron absorption through the intestines into the blood. Some of the iron had deposited in Parker's liver and pancreas, contributing to cirrhosis and a mild case of diabetes...
Other virologists, mindful that liver inflammation may be caused by many agents, hopefully awaited further evidence that their colleagues had indeed found viral culprits in a disease that now ranks as one of the U.S.'s most serious infectious-disease problems...