Word: livers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early backer of the late Senator Joe McCarthy, was almost killed on the floor of the House in March 1954 when three armed Puerto Rican nationalists in the gallery began spraying the House floor with bullets. The most seriously wounded of five Congressmen was Bentley: a bullet pierced his liver and stomach and a lung. Minnesota's Congressman Walter Judd, M.D. (who fortnight ago keynoted the 1960 Republican Convention), administered first aid to Bentley, probably saved his life. Eight weeks after the shooting, Bentley returned to a standing ovation from his House colleagues...
...half of illegal booze produced for every gallon distilled under legal limitations. Furthermore, the ocean of homemade booze was killing too many Frenchmen, he argued. "In the past 14 years,'' said Debré, "total deaths from alcoholism have multiplied by twelve, deaths from cirrhosis of the liver by six, and entries into hospitals for alcoholic psychosis by 18. Do you know that half the crimes in France are due to alcoholism?" The Assembly broke into a storm of protest. Pleaded the Duke de Montesquiou-Fezensac: "Don't banish from the nation men who, living in misery, improve...
...already been treated by surgery or radiation, which confused the picture. The doctors wanted to find cancer victims who had had no other treatment and for whom none was possible. The place, suggested the African Research Foundation, * was in and around Kenya, where cancer of the head, cervix and liver is common and medical care is scarce...
...description of a selfconscious, self-elected young genius shows why his book is worth Graves's trouble and the reader's time: "A young man, pale and gloomy, who avoids mankind and walks alone through the deserted countryside, a concentration of thought and bile, a liver with feet...
Triparanol, say Merrell researchers, works by blocking a late stage of cholesterol manufacture in the liver. This means that unusually large amounts of a preceding substance, desmosterol, are left sloshing around in the blood. As Boston's noted heart specialist, Dr. Robert W. Wilkins, has pointed out, nobody knows yet what effect this added desmosterol will have on patients. So far, undesirable reactions have been few and mild (nausea and occasional rashes). Whatever triparanol's ultimate effect on patients' health and survival, the drug gives physicians a chance to find some of the answers that laboratory research...