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Sulfonamides may cause nausea, vomiting, cyanosis (skin turning blue because of lack of oxygen in the blood), mental confusion, anemia, damage to liver and kidneys-and, in some cases, death...
...Buffalo Liver. Parkman lived with the plains Indians just before they took to the warpath to halt the whites. Often he traveled with only two companions, but, Boston gentleman that he was, always carried calling cards. He learned to eat boiled dog and to like raw buffalo liver, and discovered that the noble savage of Novelist James Fenimore Cooper was a library creation. Parkman thought Indians "not much better than brutes...
...cuts in half the human body's ability to absorb carotene, which is converted to vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness, various skin and internal disorders. What's more alarming, fine droplets of mineral oil can go through the intestinal wall and reach the liver and lymph nodes, where, doctors suspect, they may cause dangerous lesions. Autopsies have revealed such droplets in patients' tissues...
Uncle Tom's Cabin. The date was Feb. 13, but their luck was in. The first person they saw was an Italian peasant on a bicycle, a member of the Partisans, who led them to a house where they got a meal of noodles and pig's liver, met the tailgunner (picked up by another member of the local underground) and experienced their first bombing: some P-47s dive-bombed a nearby bridge. As days went by, Chappuis & Co. were moved from house to house, and village to village, towards the Swiss frontier. Once they walked right past...
Died. Carlo Cardinal Salotti, 77, Bishop of Palestrina; of a liver ailment; in Rome. A Cardinal since 1935, for the past nine years he had been Prefect of the Congregation of Rites (the organization which prepares argumentative evidence for & against the creation of new saints and blesseds). A persuasive orator, he had previously served as Promoter of the Faith ("The Devil's Advocate"), whose role is to argue as persuasively as possible against the candidate for canonization...