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...work when the animal (or human) is faced by physical or mental stress. Also named the "ACTH-hypophysiotropic hormone," it can be injected to give the same results as a shot of ACTH, e.g., in rheumatoid arthritis, by a more natural method. ¶ A series of changes in liver function shortly before and after birth enables the newborn mammal (whether human or rat makes no difference) to withstand the shock of emergence into the world, said a team of Boston biochemists headed by Harvard's Dr. Claude A. Villee. A few days before birth the liver builds...
Died. James B. Macelwane, S.J., 72, world-famed seismologist, dean of St. Louis University's Institute of Technology, president of the American Geophysical Union, author (Theoretical Seismology); of a liver infection; in St. Louis. A top authority on earthquakes, Jesuit Macelwane developed a system for tracking hurricanes, pioneered in the use of the seismograph to detect oil deposits...
...should because for this purpose it needs insulin, produced in the pancreas. In the diabetic, the pancreas may not produce enough insulin. Or, according to Pittsburgh University's Dr. I. Arthur Mirsky, it may produce enough, only to have it destroyed by insulinase, an enzyme made by the liver. Injections of insulin, which have prolonged and saved countless lives for 33 years, simply supply outside insulin. A more logical treatment, Dr. Mirsky thinks, would be to block the insulinase. Both the new drugs-close kin to the sulfa drugs-work by poisoning the insulinase...
...tray of fresh beef liver slid into place at the Lowell House dining hall at one o'clock this afternoon. The Committee to Visit Harvard College ate fresh liver and had their sherbet...
After a brief trip to the Business School, they came to Lowell House for lunch with members of the House committee. The liver was good...