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...probe is small enough to reach into the ducts that drain the gall bladder and liver. The device was perfected late last August; by last week it had been used successfully in 25 operations. It will not locate stones without an operation, but Dr. Kirby hopes soon to have a gadget that will...
Some patients were running doctors ragged with petty requests. ("I always use Carter's Little Liver Pills. Please can I have a chit so that I can get them free?") A few diehard doctors, still hoping that the act would be a bust, were blandly prescribing champagne, oysters, whiskey and rum for their patients-at government expense. Some patients were unreasonable. One physician, forced to cancel his evening office hours because of a difficult, ten-hour delivery, was greeted at his surgery next morning by four threatening hoodlums; he was now a servant of the people, they told...
Cramp her larynx, lung, and liver...
...that certain co-enzymes are needed to get the fire started. But the identity of the co-enzymes was unknown. Biochemist Lehninger discovered that the same enzymes which oxidize carbohydrates also oxidize fat. He found out where the burning takes place, too. In the cells of the liver (where half the body's fat is oxidized) are small, granular structures called mitochondria. The mitochondria, Lehninger announced, are the cellular power plants "or stokers or burners" for the combustion...
...discovery may lead to a better understanding of a number of diseases in which fat is not burned normally: jaundice, hardening of the arteries, a liver disease called infectious hepatitis. There is also tentative evidence that cancer cells use fat abnormally...