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...that led, back in 1970, to a ban on the practice of spraying herbicides containing the substance on the jungles of Viet Nam. His newest book may help to create a climate for domestic restrictions. Such action seems appropriate. Everything that is known about dioxin, associated with skin eruptions, liver damage, cancers, mental problems, miscarriages and birth defects, suggests that it may be even better at killing animals and people than at killing weeds...
...naturally occurring derivative of vitamin A. Applied to the skin, the natural acid has helped relieve common acne. But vitamin A, which is given orally, has been of little use. For severe acne, it is totally inappropriate because the high doses that would be required could damage the liver, bones and nerves...
...draw. A self-described "Jeffersonian democrat," Padover exhibits an intimate and often lurid portrait. As an adolescent, Marx embraced Christ, then, in a long hysterical poem, identified himself with Lucifer. During the exhausting research and writing of Das Kapital, he was plagued by illnesses ranging from carbuncles to chronic liver inflammation. Padover shows the father of socialism distracting himself from the pain and humiliation of a carbuncle on the scrotum by quoting pornographic French verse in a letter to his German collaborator, Frederick Engels. More appealingly, there is a vignette of the whitebearded Marx trotting obediently on all fours round...
...judge said, "Mel, if you get by with this...what's to prevent you from suing Elsie the Borden Cow for giving too thick cream and causing cholesterol, or suing Jim Beam for giving cirrhosis of the liver?"...[In the current case] what I'm trying to do is prove to a jury that cigarettes do cause cancer, period. Then if people want to smoke, it's up to them...I don't think my client had any choice, I think she was addicted...
CAPD's secret? The wastes are filtered out not by the kidneys or a man-made substitute, but by another part of the body: the thin membrane lining the abdominal, or peritoneal, cavity and covering the organs that jut into it, including the stomach, liver, spleen and intestines, as well as the kidneys. To make this area accessible, doctors cut a small permanent opening just below the navel, then implant a tube that leads through the peritoneal membrane and into the cavity itself...