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...Diabetes is a disease of combustion: carbohydrates are rushed through the body, poured out in the urine, without being properly digested or warehoused in the liver. Four groups of glands may be involved in this condition: the tiny islands of Langerhans in the pancreas, which secrete insulin, a hormone essential for carbohydrate digestion; the adrenals, thyroid and anterior pituitary, which seem to act antagonistically to the islets. Exactly how they work, or what causes them to go berserk, no one knows...
Last week, in Washington, Gracie Hall Roosevelt died at 50, from a chronic liver ailment. From his big sister, who had tried to look after him ever since they were orphaned, he received the kind of tribute which might make any man glad that he had lived. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt loved her brother dearly. At dawn one morning she left his bedside, rode back to the White House, wrote this moving obituary for her syndicated column...
Died. Gracie Hall Roosevelt, 50, brother of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; of a chronic liver disease; in Washington...
...other work included the discovery of new treatments for whooping cough and extensive research into the causes of cirrosis of the liver. He proved that the cause was not alcohol but phosphorous present in the alcohol...
Chronic copper poisoning was blamed by Dr. Mallory for causing wide varieties of heart, liver, and kidney trouble and even diabetes. By his discoveries in this field, he acquitted brews from the blame of causing certain diseases for which the copper in kettles and percolators are actually to blame...