The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-01

In barefoot days we developed furtlVe ar from trying to get by the butcher shop to pa tronize the town pump without being halted with a "Hi, hubby. take this along nome to your mother"-the butchers way of disposins of surplus of liver.
 How the times have changed!
 For at least 10 years before Murphy ana
 Minot liver enjoyed considerable vogue m thls s column, as nutritious, wholesome, ecohoinica' a. meat. The price of the commodity began to rise from practically nothing to questionape fgure We regretted the trend and lay OH liver But it was too late. Along came the
 Boston research men with their discovery or the specific value of liver in tho treatment or pernicious anemia. We concluded to wash our hands of the matter and switch to bananas. Bananas went very well for a while we had a kind of sole proprietorship of the Danan- as- for babies movement. At one stage iruit company actually sent along handsome nus trated booklet telling us what we had been teaching the public for several years But no bananas No, mo- positively no bananas. oh' yes some big-hearted importer once sent us whole bunch of bananas beautifully packed III barrel we understand. The boys in the proofroom forgot to mention it until months | afterward. but then they assured me the pa-
 nanas were the best they ever ct.
 | It would be unfair not to mention the lodiZed
 salt man, the chicory man and the goat dairy man in this connection. even If the goat dary
 mans offering met the same fate as did the bananas And especially the molasses man
 there's man who knows not only how to turn
 out licking good moasses but how to Keep 1 friend of moasses sweetened up.
 Since we have been pulling the liver market
 the butcher has assumed almost an insolent l bearing His car fairly sneers at our fivver
 as it rolls past If encounter him about the
 shop he generally passes the time giving us
 some information about healthfu diet ana
 never so demeans himself to ask our opin-
 ion or to defer to in any way. Give us
 sample of choice liver? Don't be silly. However, it is not in vindictive mood but
 prey for the sake of more health to more | people that l note here the very latest advices l from Boston on the liver situation. None other
 than Dr William r. Murphy himself reports
 that new extract of liver containing little or
 no protein proves much more effective In the
 treatment of pernicious anemia than liver in
 any form by mouth. The new extract is in-
 jccted ntramuscularly or intravenously and in
 very grave cases the benefit is so striking and
 so immediate that Dr Murphy suggests 1t may
 well replace the use of either transfusion or
 the stomach tube in the treatment of the criti-
 cally i'll patient. He further recommends the
 injection method, which is as safe as 1t is rapid | in effect, as a valuable substitute for the ad-
 minstra tion of liver by mouth in cases where
 the patient finds 1t hard to take sufficient | liver It does not require disqualification. and | 1t is rather less expensive than any form of
 liver or liver extract taken by mouth. Injec-
 tions are given at intervals of one to three weeks.
 Incidentally, liver liver extract is of little value in the treatment of ordinary secondary
 anemia.