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...France," a well-traveled patient told a doctor in Newcastle upon Tyne, "when a horse develops clots in its legs, it is treated with a diet of garlic and onions." The doctor was a Burma-born heart-disease researcher, I. Sudhakaran Menon, and the remark suggested to him a novel line of attack on the problem of clot formation in human blood vessels...
...eats a fat-loaded meal, the strength of the anticlotting factors in his blood decreases sharply within two or three hours, proportionately increasing the risk that clots may form and block veins in his legs (thrombophlebitis) or cause a heart attack by blocking coronary arteries. Was it possible, Menon wondered, that onions could cancel out this effect? Menon persuaded the cardiologists at Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle to let him test the idea with 22 volunteer patients...
Most of the drugs now used to guard against clot formation in blood vessels have to be injected, and their effect is short-lived. Some even produce allergic reactions, Menon notes in the British...
Medical Journal. Just what it is in onions that exerts a protective effect is not known, but Menon hopes to find it by peeling off layer after layer of the many complex chemicals contained in the lachrymatory vegetable...
...Shiv Sena, formed in 1966 by a hot-tempered political cartoonist named Bal Thackeray.* A fierce anti-Communist who admits to an admiration for Adolf Hitler's nation-building abilities, Thackeray emerged as a political force in 1967, when he and his followers engineered the defeat of Krishna Menon's bid for re-election to Parliament. Since that time, Thackeray has fought hard to obtain a better break for the natives of Maharashtra State, of which Bombay is the capital; in particular, he worked to get more white-collar jobs for them, charging that outsiders from the neighboring...