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...medical term, itai-itai (ouch-ouch). Seeking clues, health officials finally exhumed Takako's body last month and performed an autopsy. The results shocked the nation. By current Japanese standards, a reading of one part per million of cadmium is harmful to humans. Takako's liver contained 4,540 p.p.m., her kidneys 22,400 p.p.m. Scientists speculated that she breathed cadmium particles and fumes generated by the plant's smelting process, and pointed out that a major symptom of such poisoning, decalcification of bones, is not detectable by X ray until the bones have lost about...
While Mailer is not one to repeat himself. there is much here that we have seen before. There are the ritual reports on his bowels, liver, and marriages; his preoccupation with the small town mind; the constant dualities of vision: the stylistic brilliance, the quick substitutions of abstract for concrete; the sweeping flights, within single phrases, from the commonplace to the sublime (Hemingway's brains are "scattered now in every atmosphere"); metaphors that reach out and grasp every aspect of common experience; and the quick observations that outgun entire works of lesser writers (as when Frank McGee is described...
...disease in the population of Washington County, Md., Comstock and his colleagues made an incidental but fascinating discovery. Regular churchgoing, and the clean living that often goes with it, appear to help people avoid a whole bagful of dire ailments and disasters. Among them: heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver, tuberculosis, cancer of the cervix, chronic bronchitis, fatal one-car accidents and suicides...
...another researcher, Makio Murayama of the National Institutes of Health. Murayama discovered that the sickle-cell shape is caused by an abnormal bonding between hemoglobin molecules in the red cells. Using this knowledge, Nalbandian's team decided to try urea, a waste substance produced by the normal human liver and excreted in the urine. As they knew, urea can dissolve certain types of molecular bonds. Their experiment worked: urea broke the bond between the hemoglobin molecules, halted the sickling effect, and relieved the victims' pain...
...happy I could come," I answer, but she doesn't hear or understand and walks back to the liver and the olives...