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Quiet rebellion flared again at M.I.T. last night, as all but five residents of Baker House boycotted the evening meal for the second time in a week. The students there had boycotted last Friday night's meal of liver and fish in protest against the poor food served in the dining hall...
When doctors suspect disease in a deep-seated vital organ, e.g., the heart or liver, it may be dangerous or downright impossible to take a tissue sample (biopsy specimen) for microscopic examination. Biochemistry may supply a neat if not simple solution, says Dr. Felix Wróblewski of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute. Instead of cutting for a tissue sample, it may be enough for the doctor to get a little blood from the patient and analyze its enzymes...
...chemically complex enzymes serve the body as catalysts, usually in minute quantities. In disease, the relative concentration of some enzymes increases. After a heart attack, Dr. Wróblewski points out, there is a rise in several enzymes, including serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGO-T) and lactic dehydrogenase (SLD). Liver diseases cause release into the blood of SGO-T and glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (SGP-T). Careful and repeated measuring of several enzymes can pinpoint disease in a particular organ. Examples: a high level of SGO-T, without elevation in SGP-T, gave an index of President Eisenhower's progress...
...surgeon found internal chaos. Cancer had already spread from the spine, invading the pancreas, the liver, the stomach. It was untreatable. Nothing could be done. Her parents' instinctive reaction was to hope that Gabrielle would die without regaining consciousness. But the child lived for three long, crucifying months, and her mother writes: "What I discovered later is that life, every minute of it, is beautiful and precious and exciting always, no matter what the condition of the body...
...delirium, the child cried out in a singsong voice: "The call is coming, the call is coming." It was prophetic. The convulsions began, and the bright spirit slowly burned away. Nothing was spared, for there even came a day when Gabby's blood count suddenly became normal; her liver improved; the swelling in her abdomen began shrinking. But it was a false dawn and, watching the child sleep with her fine bones showing through the silvery pallor of her face, the mother thought: "I could sometimes see the unfamiliar but strangely beautiful mask of death already being tried...