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...average American, liver is for wurst. But to 47.6 million Frenchmen, le foie - when it is not gras - is the precious, pesky organ that regulates their lives. When a Frenchman exclaims, "Mon foie!", his cry from the gland wins instant sympathy, even in a Place de la Concorde traffic jam. Depending on whether it is swollen, too hard, too tender, congested, enrheumed or, as the French say, "intoxicated" from a surfeit of rich food, the liver is blamed for virtually every physical malfunction from ingrown toenails to inadequate amatory performance...
...assuage the Gallic gland, French men gulp some 7,000 varieties of patent medicines - notably, Les Petites Pilules Carters Pour Le Foie - as well as treating it to massage, hot baths, compresses, radioactive water, herbs, fasts, purges, exercises, and injections, naturally, of liver. Says an Anglo-Saxon doctor who has practiced for many years in Paris: "I have never examined a Frenchman who did not believe that he had liver trouble." Undoubtedly, the Frenchman's liver takes a worse beating than any other variety on earth, except that of the geese they force-feed for foie gras. The French...
Crises for Cats. In most other civilized countries, the liver is rated one of the body's most rugged and efficient organs; the original protein factory, it can actually repair its own damaged cells and lost tissue. The Anglo-Saxon often attributes liver ailments to malnutrition, a fate to which the liver is not conspicuously subject in France, where every foodstuff is weighed for its effect on the foie. In the age-old belief that eggs overtax young livers, the average French parent would sooner poach a hare than an egg for the children. Chocolate, butter and cream...
...universal is the cult of liver worship, say many doctors, that patients refuse to believe that anything else could possibly be wrong with them. Says Dr. André Varay, one of France's most eminent liver specialists: "French liver trouble is almost a chauvinistic attribute. The Frenchman looks indulgently at the minor miseries his epicureanism and great cooking cause him, the way a valiant warrior looks on his battle scars...
Died. Sarit Thanarat, 55, Thailand's strongman since 1957; of cirrhosis of the liver, complicated by various other ailments; in Bangkok (see THE WORLD...