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...injury to the liver that may lead to death from subsequent attacks of what otherwise would be relatively harmless diseases has been traced to fumes from certain widely used chemicals by Dr. Cecil K. Drinker, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, and his associates...
...chemicals responsible are complex compounds of chlorine and naphthalene, recognized for some time as the cause of skin diseases affecting industrial workers handling them. The higher the amount of chlorine present in the compound, the greater the damage, both to the skin and to the liver, Dr. Drinker has found...
...research, the first ever conducted on systematic effects of these fumes, was undertaken after three apparently healthy workmen handling the chemicals contracted jaundice which rapidly turned into yellow atrophy of the liver...
Robert Speaight is superb as Becket, because his behaviour and appearance indicate besides the man of God, the onetime parvenu, good liver, and states man. E. Martin Browne in addition to having directed the play, fills with great understanding the roles of the last tempter and the last speakers for the murderers. The nine women who comprise the chorus, the "type of the common man," lend much added power, through their lowly dignity, their hypnotic speeches of vague forboding, and their intuitive understanding of situations that baffle the priests. Poetry and drama are masterfully blended by author and actors
Injury by heat, X-rays or mechanical means also caused the hormones to be released, and they were obtained not only from yeast cells but from liver, kidney, embryo and other tissues. Dr. Sperti therefore decided that he had come upon a general phenomenon associated with cell injury. Since one effect of the hormone was to multiply cells rapidly, it seemed possible that unknown hormones of the same type might be the cause of the unhealthy cell proliferation which constitutes cancer. But since the fluid from radiated yeast brought about normal, not abnormal cell proliferation, the prospect arose of using...