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Millions of people suffer from ailments that doctors treat by prescribing low-salt diets. The most important are congestive heart failure and many forms of kidney disease (in which the body retains too much water, to match an excess of salt). Also, salt sometimes complicates cirrhosis of the liver and possibly high blood pressure. Yet in many parts of the U.S. and Canada, says Alberta's Dr. George B. Elliott, the benefits of the low-salt diet are wiped out by the water that patients drink-water loaded with sodium in any of several salts, including sodium chloride (common...
...about his health, especially about such a vital question as whether he has had hepatitis. Moreover, he cannot comfortably give more than a pint every two or three months. The corpse cannot lie, and the pathologists doing an autopsy can check every vital organ for disease-including the liver for evidence of hepatitis. They select as donors only the corpses of presumably healthy individuals who die suddenly, as in traffic accidents or from heart attacks. A cadaver yields far more blood than a walking donor: the Pontiac investigators have drawn as many as three pints from a grown...
Unlike most administrators, Dr. Whippie never gave up research. He shared a Nobel Prize in 1934 for the basic discovery that simple anemia can be corrected with some meats and dried fruits, and that even pernicious anemia (previously always fatal) would yield to liver and its extracts. He has picked up many other honors - among them, having a digestive disease named...
...pollen-free months, Dr. Whippie goes back to Rochester on emeritus status, still works from 9 to 4. He gave up teaching pathology a year ago, but only to give younger men a chance, and still lectures on the history of medicine. Practicing what he preaches, Dr. Whipple eats liver at least once a week...
Died. Ahmed Bey Zogu, 65, former King Zog I of Albania, who helped his Balkan land shake off Turkish despotism only to see it taken over, first by Italy, then by the Soviet Union; of stomach ulcers and a liver ailment; in Paris. "My life is an adventure story," said Zog, a mountain chieftain who rose from Premier to President to King, reigned for eleven years before Mussolini's troops chased him into lifelong exile in 1939. Zog, whose notorious chain-smoking (150 cigarettes a day) came as close to killing him as four assassination attempts, spent his last...