| Show 1 jr I r. r Brady Says 1 W Animal Tests Indicate Alcohol I I No Liver Cirrhosis Cause U t By William Brady M. M D D. D Correspondent of uncertain ender letter signed just I I. I M Mje je e tells today's cock bull ory ry I fI have been ld by the I actor octor during je e annual s. s in the lant where I pork o r k that ased on a audy udy of the therin rin do texture of Jr ly iy hands and andie andle ie le fallen Dr Brady rustles between thumb and finger that I am subject to cirrhosis of the liver in the I next 10 years I am now 48 and must slop stop all smoking and drinking Is IsI this true My l drinking averages I s six x or seven glasses of beer and about four ounces of good whisky a day Other doctors would not verify this and were noncommittal Please give me your opinion Gender Puzzle Tur I can remember the time when I would have inferred from the correspondents correspondent's drinking habit that he must be of the masculine persuasion but since the insidious insidious ous cocktail has seeped into American school home and soI social so- so 1 I cial life that criterion fails Whether the drinking the correspondent correspondent correspondent cor cor- respondent describes is likely to cause cirrhosis hardening of the Ute liver I dont don't know It was the thc consensus of physicians when Tony was nas a pup that as Osler Osier unequivocally stated staled Alcohol is the chief cause of cirrhosis of the liver Osler Osier observed that the form of cirrhosis in which the liver is enlarged and fatty occurs occurs occurs oc curs most frequently in beer drinkers Atrophic cirrhosis the form in which the liver is shriveled to less than half its normal size and weight has long longI I been called hobnail liver or gin- gin drinkers drinker's liver I Doubtful Now I In the past 15 or 20 years I however medical scientists have I cast considerable doubt on the the belief that alcohol is the chief cause of hardening of the thc liver They seem to base their doubt larg largely IY on the failure of experimental experimental mental animals to develop cirrhosis cirrhosis cir cir- cir cir- of the liver when alcohol in sufficient quantity is added to I their feed for a period of months All I know is what I read read read- Im I'm caught in between like a wrestler in the wrong corner ina in ina I I a tag match But I still scout the I I practice of applying conclusions I from animal experimentation to human life And so I lay back my i I long ears and side with or rather follow Dr Osler Osier in regard to the cause of cirrhosis of the liver If the plant doctor seriously I told the correspondent that the I skin texture and the weak or orI I wasted muscles between thumb and f finger nger indicate that the correspondent correspondent cor core respondent is going to have cirrhosis cirrhosIs cir- cir of the liver within the next ten years the doctor must be a wizard or a mystic But if the doctor was just trying trying try try- I ing to throw a scare into the beer and whisky hog perhaps he heis heis heis is a good doctor trying to save the hog from his or her own self |
