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...charge is generated. In fatigue the ability to regenerate electric potential is reduced, in exhaustion it almost ceases. In death it stops altogether. In death there is no difference, chemical or electrical, between nucleus and cytoplasm. This fact Dr. Crile noted. He noted, too, that the brain and the liver decomposed 100 times faster than the heart or voluntary muscles. So he supposed that the brain is the positive pole of the human battery (collection of cells), that the liver is the negative pole. Heart, lungs, stomach are only accessories to the electrical operation of liver and brain. He found...
...Foot Children. Drs. Thomas B. Osborne and Lafayette B. Mendel of Yale reported dietetic experiments on rats which, if applied to humans, would produce six-foot six-year-olds. The diet: liberal proteins; lettuce; liver; yeast...
...smallpox. In septicemia, bacterial blood poisoning, these germs may snake along to the heart, where they fasten themselves to the inner heart membranes; or they may grow to the lips of the heart valves, causing thereby valvular troubles. The toxins may cause rotting of the lobules of the liver and of certain passages of the kidneys. They are the causative agents of erysipelas...
Butchers and bons mots, liver and literature are seldom paired except inverse libre, at least until the advent of a genius. Such a genius is Bennie Sabitino of Long Island City. Saturday morning he opened there an "Intellectual Meat Market" where the cultured customer can enjoy "a conversation with him on any question involving scientific, philosophical, artistic, and literary considerations". Thus for once arts and the crafts are in harmony, and a criterion for future artists who find art ill paid, and future savants who find saving sage bulks from the building where Bennie works. Like the man who first...
...Father and Son tell how they found relief from liver disorders by taking Black-Draught...