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...killing him than anyone, including indestructible Poppa himself, suspected at the time. A ship's doctor, on the voyage from Africa to Italy, examined Hemingway, who complained of aches and pains, and, as Poppa fancifully recalled the diagnosis, spotted 1) three compressed vertebrae, 2) a ruptured kidney and liver, 3) a collapsed intestine, 4) a brain concussion, 5) partial blindness, 6) bad scalp burns. Moreover, before sailing from Mombasa, Poppa had rushed off into the bush as a volunteer firefighter. There he got badly burned again but never said much about it, because by then "people would have thought...
...laboratory will attempt to discover the function of trace elements copper, zinc, titanium and tin in cell metabolism. Past workers in biochemistry have discovered that in the white blood corpuscles of leukemia patients an abnormally low amount of zinc is present, while in liver disease, heart ailments, Hodgkins disease, and certain types of psychosis the copper concentration of the blood serum increases...
...because he managed to do everything years before it was done by the person we credit with doing it. Hackney, for instance, out Saroyaned Saroyan and out-Bellowed Saul Bellow, and did it first. "Gutenberg's Folly" is therefore a labor of love: dying from a surfeit of chopped liver canapes, Hackney willed Wallach his wife and his work...
...Among the common noncancerous conditions that also cause a Penn test to show up positive are active rheumatoid arthritis, tuberculosis, cirrhosis of the liver, fever, pregnancy and hormone treatments...
...Savannah River plant and others on the West Coast. Radioactivity in the Columbia River below the AEC's Hanford plant has not reached an alarming level, the health engineers report, and though fish pick up some, most of it settles in such inedible parts as bone, heart and liver...