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Snake meat was good for rheumatism, otter's liver for tuberculosis. For sore eyes, a fine salve could be made from bears' gall bladders. If dubious of such tried-&-true remedies, the ailing one shuffled down the street to get a heavenly diagnosis from an astrologer, or spiritual advice from one of the local fortune tellers. There was not much point, said the Chinese, in a foreign doctor coming to Changsha to open a foreign-style hospital...
Died. John ("Jack") Quinn Picus, 60, oldest active pitcher in major-league baseball at the time of his retirement in 1935, one of the last of the spitballers; of a liver ailment; in Pottsville...
Bile & Bilge. There was also Mrs. Hicks, with whom Author MacDonald once shared a ride to town. "We also shared the car with Mrs. Hicks' liver and her bile, neither of which functioned properly. ... She drove, as did all the natives of that country, on the wrong side of the road, very fast and with both hands off the wheel most of the time. During the course of the drive, she missed by a hair two other cars, a cow, a drove of horses, a wagon and a road scraper but not a feint in the blow by blow...
...face of the haggis (ground heart, liver, lights, suet, onions, boiled with oatmeal in a sheep's stomach bag), many a blithe spirit bolted, to watch Montreal's "social" regiment, the Black Watch, execute an eightsome reel, or dance to the music of Eddie Alexander's orchestra...
...Along with three other papers whose editorial policy suits the Colonel's liver better: Hearst's Detroit Times and Oakland Post-Enquirer; Cousin Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson's Washington Times-Herald...