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...behavior modification. Both methods have been sources of heated controversy. Dumont, for example, criticizes drugs, particularly heavy tranquilizers, as "a chemical fix for any emotional distress [which] clouds over the necessary emotional reactions to life." These tranquilizers are now proving to create permanent physical damage to the eyes, liver, and nervous system...
...England about the time when the Grimm stories were being translated and prettified for children. Take Snow White, for example: in most bowdlerized versions, the wicked stepmother orders the huntsman to bring back Snow White's heart. In the original folk story, it is her lungs and liver that the bad lady wants-so that she can eat them. The dwarfs, incidentally, are always vegetarians...
Williams set out to develop a more reliable way of simulating the liver's filtering ability in 1966, when he founded the liver research unit at King's College with one assistant. Backed by private and government grants-and aided by a staff that has now expanded to 44 -he devised a series of 2-ft.-high glass columns through which the patient's blood is detoured. The columns are filled with charcoal granules, which filter water-soluble impurities from the blood; additional columns filled with resins are being tested to remove less soluble protein-bound compounds...
...more patients, who will not be hard to come by. Many victims of viral hepatitis and of adverse reactions to anesthetics or other drugs develop hepatic coma. The condition may also be brought on by drug abuse; 1,500 persons were admitted to English hospitals in 1971 for liver poisoning caused by Paracetamol, a painkilling tablet...
Williams is proceeding cautiously, watching for side effects and accepting only patients in coma. But results so far make him confident that his machine can eventually sharply reduce the death rate from acute liver failure, which in Britain now kills eight out of every ten victims...