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...main dangers of the immediate effects, according to Klerman are that the subject could hurt himself by for example misjudging distances, and that the physiological changes induced by the drugs might accentuate a chronic illness, like a liver condition...
...famed for its long-staying qualities of freshness, but it looks as if it had been pumped from an outhouse. For years, the swamp's vegetation was supposed to be an unequaled medicine chest. The pale blue hepatica, with leaves shaped like the lobes of the liver, was good for any liver disorder. Virginia Bluebell cured chest ailments. The common yellow yarrow was standard treatment for toothache...
...really starting to do my best work. I have three marvelous children, and I think I have a brand-new career opening up. Things have been different since my hepatitis attack in 1959, when they told me I might not live. I guess I was so concerned about my liver that I didn't have time to worry about anything else. Also, I turned 40 a few months ago. and when you hit that stage you feel that maybe now people won't think of you as a stupid backward child that you wind up and send...
Only 39 years old, Dr. Uzman was one of the country's foremost neurologists. His most important work led to the determination of the cause of Wilson's disease, or hepatolenticular degeneration. This is a genetic desease involving cirrhosis of the liver (progressive destruction of the cells), a smoky brownish ring around the corner of the eye, and a progressive degeneration of part of the brain known as the lenticular nucleus, resulting in tremors and rigidity of the body...
Also while at the Children's Cancer Research Foundation, an affiliate of the Children's Hospital Medical Center, Dr. Uzman investigated another so-called lipid storage disease, gargoylism, a rare disease producing gargoyle-like deformities of face and body as well as disorders of brain, liver, and spleen. The disease is inborn and leads to mental deficiency...