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Dozens of chemically complex enzymes serve the body as catalysts, usually in minute quantities. In disease, the relative concentration of some enzymes increases. After a heart attack, Dr. Wróblewski points out, there is a rise in several enzymes, including serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGO-T) and lactic dehydrogenase (SLD). Liver diseases cause release into the blood of SGO-T and glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (SGP-T). Careful and repeated measuring of several enzymes can pinpoint disease in a particular organ. Examples: a high level of SGO-T, without elevation in SGP-T, gave an index of President Eisenhower...
...Truth Serum. In Pittsburgh, Motorist Francis Weiss admitted that he had downed "five or six cocktails," was acquitted of drunken driving after flabbergasted Judge Robert E. McCreary observed it was "only the second time I've heard a defendant admit to having more than a couple of beers...
...Shoot." There, on Dave Weyer's insistence, Violet was brought to Psychiatrist G. Charles Sutch. Typically, in cascades of anxiety and tears, she persisted in saying: "I don't know what happened. I just don't remember." Sutch gave her a dose of Sodium Amytal (truth serum) in an attempt to break through the "tremendous amnesic barrier." "You can remember, Violet," he persuaded her gently. "Tell me everything that happened." Violet haltingly told her story: she had returned home from a restaurant with her husband, quarreling, on the way, about the food. Then...
...Possibly related is rheumatoid spondylitis, or arthritis of the spine, which singles out young men.) Usually attacks virtually all joints in the limbs. Difficult to diagnose, but in 1930 Dr. Russell L. Cecil, now medical director of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, discovered a clumping factor in the blood serum of patients that has led to a promising test...
...cheese were once prescribed for palsy and typhus; they also give a feeling of "ethereal delights." Rattlesnake oil was once a popular remedy, too, but both venom and oil have now fallen out of medical favor. The chief modern use for the venom is to immunize horses so their serum can be used to cure rattlesnake bites...