Word: viscera
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After he had made his cat comfortable on its back and insensitive to pain, he carefully slit open its torso to expose the viscera. Next he carefully cut practically every sympathetic nerve in the cat's body. Particularly, he cut the nerves running to the heart and every organ known to produce a hormone - the thyroids, parathyroids, thymus, duodenum, liver, pancreas, adrenals, pineal gland, pituitary body, chorioid plexus and sexual organs...
...which might obscure his research, he shook the cat's forepaws. Nothing happened. He shook its head. Nothing happened. He shook the hind quarters. At that the heart, whose nerves had been disconnected, started beating faster. He pinched the veins and arteries connecting the heart and the abdominal viscera he was watching. That is, with nerve or telegraph system cut off, he now dammed the blood stream through which a possible hormone might float. The cat's heart now returned to normal. Professor Cannon, wriggling the cat's hind part, released the pinched veins and arteries...
...lung had collapsed. But her heart was beating strongly. She said she felt no pain. There was no possible hope of saving her. So the doctors, mindful of the professional value of an exposed heart action, dragged in a moving picture camera, photographed the puzzled little girl's viscera the 14 hours she continued to live...
...endless stream of obvious landsmen with nautical aspirations tramped bravely up the gangways and roamed the concentrated, neat interiors. Women fingered cooking utensils professionally. Experts hung at precarious angles peering into mechanical viscera. Small boys delighted to honk horns or to seat themselves surreptitiously when salesmen, displaying tasteful arrays of toilet accessories, were not looking...
...vitamin E in the foods he gave 30 of his anemic patients. All improved; none had relapses in two years. "The foods of greatest value in this new treatment," he reported "are butter, milk, cream, egg yolks, tomatoes, spinach, lettuce, oranges, grapefruit and pineapples. Of meats the edible viscera, which are commonly eaten only rarely, are of the greatest value; liver, lungs, sweetbreads, kidneys, beef heart and brain...