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Many babies are "jaundiced" in the first few days of life, but usually the yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes disappears quickly as the liver adjusts to its new metabolic work load. William Lewis, born last Oct. 10 in New York City, was a rare example of a far more serious condition. His complexion remained abnormal. Even more frightening, his stools and urine indicated that he suffered from an inborn defect, biliary atresia-the absence or severe underdevelopment of tiny bile ducts emerging from the liver. William's case proved to be unusual in another respect...
Nature designed the ducts to carry bile on its way from the liver, where it is made, to the duodenum, where it aids in digestion. Among the estimated 200 occurrences each year of biliary atresia in the U.S., there are a few in which ducts outside the liver are large enough for corrective surgery. But not in William's case...
...bile backing up in his liver would soon cause irreparable damage to that vital organ and affect others. The prognosis, at one of Manhattan's most famed university hospitals, was grim. Although operations for biliary atresia are performed in the U.S., the experts concluded that William's condition could not be corrected by surgery and that he probably would live no longer than nine months...
...investigations of Geritol began in 1959, but have been stalled in the regulatory mill and the courts ever since. The marathon case ranks second only to the FTC's 16-year effort to get Carter Products, Inc. to stop misleading advertising that claimed its Carter's Little Liver Pills could overcome lethargy and even the blues...
Died. Charles Leo ("Gabby") Hartnett, 72, star Chicago Cubs catcher for 19 seasons (1922-40) and member of baseball's Hall of Fame; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Park Ridge, Ill. A portly, good-humored player once spurned by the pros because of his small hands, Hartnett played in more than 1,900 games for the Cubs, set a lifetime batting average of .297, and in his heyday was widely considered the best catcher in the game...