Word: liverence
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...lesions produced by germs, particularly syphilitic lesions in the mouth and in tuberculosis of the skin. In the Rockefeller Institute Laboratory we have seen the production of cancer of the stomach following experimental infection by a nematode, that is, a kind of worm, and malignant changes in the liver associated with tapeworm cysts...
...make enough money to carry him to the U. S. Recently he appeared at the offices of the Panama American, told his story which was promptly resold to the North American Newspaper Alliance. As originally written, it began: "I, Rene Belbenoit, who have smelled the odor of human liver being cooked by escaped convicts, who have seen groups of men decapitated every month...
...many U. S. doctors felt sure that cinchophen was primarily responsible for many deaths directly due to yellow atrophy of the liver. This matter was thrashed out last May during the convention of the American Medical Association. There Drs. Walter Lincoln Palmer and Paul Silas Woodall presented conclusive evidence that, although cinchophen does not poison all users, there is no way of telling whose liver it may attack or when it begins its deadly work. Said their report, released last week: "The very earliest symptoms may be only a signal, already too late, that the steady march of death...
...incidentally as an advertisement for his bandages, Mr. Camp, after being quoted a price reputed to be $20.000, told the Dresden artisans to go ahead. First, the skeleton of a young Dresden woman, killed in an accident, was treated with preservative, covered with paraffin. Brain, heart, stomach, lungs, thyroid, liver, spleen, pancreas, bladder and other organs were taken from corpses, made transparent by a secret process, dyed, photographed in color, enlarged, projected on a screen in three dimensions. From these projections artists made tracings which were used by sculptors to model the organs which actually went into the figure...
Some of the tales Jimmy told his guests to illustrate his contention that Patagonia was a man's country: a favorite Indian pick-me-up for a hangover was a mixture of raw liver, heart, kidneys and blood of a guanaco (llama-like native antelope). When two men were having a fight, one bit off the other's ear; the earless man got his opponent down, beat him about the face till he swallowed the ear. As indication that not all Patagonian hard cases are yet dead, jailed or retired, Jimmy wrote the Childses after their departure that...