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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That first night of freedom at Clark, the men indulged in what one officer called "an orgy of eating"-liver smothered in onions, fried chicken, steaks. The prisoners did not select one meat or another but ate them all, then tore into the cornflakes, heaping salads and triple-scoop banana splits. At 3 a.m., one prisoner went back to the cafeteria and ate an entire loaf of bread, each slice thickly coated with butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONERS: An Emotional, Exuberant Welcome Home | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

Many babies are "jaundiced" in the first few days of life, but usually the yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes disappears quickly as the liver adjusts to its new metabolic work load. William Lewis, born last Oct. 10 in New York City, was a rare example of a far more serious condition. His complexion remained abnormal. Even more frightening, his stools and urine indicated that he suffered from an inborn defect, biliary atresia-the absence or severe underdevelopment of tiny bile ducts emerging from the liver. William's case proved to be unusual in another respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Microsurgery in Japan | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

Nature designed the ducts to carry bile on its way from the liver, where it is made, to the duodenum, where it aids in digestion. Among the estimated 200 occurrences each year of biliary atresia in the U.S., there are a few in which ducts outside the liver are large enough for corrective surgery. But not in William's case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Microsurgery in Japan | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

...bile backing up in his liver would soon cause irreparable damage to that vital organ and affect others. The prognosis, at one of Manhattan's most famed university hospitals, was grim. Although operations for biliary atresia are performed in the U.S., the experts concluded that William's condition could not be corrected by surgery and that he probably would live no longer than nine months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Microsurgery in Japan | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

...child had one thing in his favor: he was less than 90 days old and his liver so far had suffered relatively little damage. As Suruga explained, after three months the backed-up bile is likely to cause irremediable cirrhosis of the liver. Another factor was most unfavorable: the bile ducts in the liver were the tiniest imaginable-averaging only one five-hundredth of an inch in diameter. Suruga is not hopeful unless they are twice that size, but he nevertheless decided to make the attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Microsurgery in Japan | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

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