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THURSH'S DINER GREGORY M. ANSTEAD* THURSH'S DINER1'2 Brunch Served 10-12 Monday-Thursday Special Menus on the third Monday of the Month No Deliveries or Housecalls For Reservations, call 333-???? Today's Waiters: Frank Necrosis and Rusty Sputum APPETIZERS Chicken broth fluid3 [1]Anchovy Paste Pus5 [3] Mutton Fat Retinopathy4 [2]Chicken Fat Clots6 [4] ENTREES Bacon Spleen7 [4]Honey-Comb Lung10 [1] Sago Spleen8—a tapioca-likeStrawberry Gallbladder11 [1] delicacy, prepared from theOrange Peel Breast12 [1] finest amyloidoses [1]Sugar-Icing Spleen13 [4] Nutmeg Liver9 [1] All entrees served with bread-and-butter pericarditis14 [1] and salt-and-pepper retinopathy15 [1] This paper was submitted to the 1991 DwightJ. Ingle Writing Award for young authors. *Box 86, Roger Adams Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and College of Medicine, University of Illinois, 1209 West California Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801. 'Dedicated to the memory of Donald Thursh, Professor of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. 2"Pardon the penchant pathologists have for likening distasteful lesions to sometimes tasty foods." [1] 3The brownish fluid with oil globules in the peritoneal cavity in acute pancreatitis. 4Keratine precipitates in the anterior segment of the eye in uveitis. 5The brown pus in an amebic liver abscess. 6A post-mortem clot composed mostly of fibrin. 'Large, maplike deposits of amyloid in the spleen. 'Deposition of amyloid limited to the splenic follicles. 9The appearance of the congested liver in right-side heart failure.© 1993 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 003 1-5982/93/3602-0803$0 1 .00 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 36, 2 ¦ Winter 1993 | 241 ON THE SIDE Onion Skin Lesions16 [1]Currant Jelly Clots19 [4] Cauliflower Ear17 [1]Potato Nodes20 [1] Assorted Heart Valve Vegetations18 [1] DESSERTS Strawberry Tongue21 [1]Strawberry Hemangioma25 [1] Raspberry Tongue22 [1]Berry Aneurysm26 [1] Strawberry Mucosa23 [1]Cherry-Red-Retinal Spots27 [1] Chocolate Cysts of the Ovary24 [1] BEVERAGES Cafe au Lait Spots28 [1] Port Wine Stain29 [1] Milk Leg30 [1] We accept VISA, Mastercard, Medicare, and Medicaid. 10The scarring and destruction in restrictive lung disease. "The accumulation oflipid-laden macrophages within the mucosal folds ofthe gallbladder (also called cholesterolosis of the gallbladder). 12The lymphedema and thickening of the skin in infiltrative breast carcinoma. 13The hyalinosis of the splenic capsule; occurs secondarily to splenomegaly. 14The fibrinous pericardial exudate of acute rheumatic heart disease. loThe ophthalmoscopic appearance of the retinal pigment epithelium in congenital rubella. 16The perivascular fibrosis in the spleen in lupus; also describes the obliterative endarteritis of syphilis. "Deformity of the auricle secondary to cartilage degeneration by trauma. 18Masses found on the heart valves in a number of conditions: endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, and lupus. 19Blackish-red post-mortem clots of erythrocytes and some fibrin. 20The bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy observed radiologically in sarcoidosis. 21The coated tongue with protruding papillae in scarlet fever. 22The bright red tongue and edematous papillae in scarlet fever. 23The reddening and edema of the vaginal mucosa in trichomoniasis. 24Distortion of the ovary by cystic spaces filled with brown blood debris; occurs in endometriosis. 2dA capillary hemangioma of the skin of newborns. 26Congenital aneurysms at the bifurcation ofmajor cerebral arteries; an important cause of subarachnoid hemorrhage. An accentuation of normal color of macular choroid; observed in Tay-Sachs and Niemann-Pick diseases. 28The pigmented skin lesions in neurofibromatosis. 29Large blue-red hemangiomas on the face and scalp ofchildren; may be a manifestation of von Hippel-Lindau disease. 30The painful white leg due to venous thrombi; observed in late pregnancy and the postdelivery period. 242 Gregory M. Anstead ¦ Thursh's Diner REFERENCES 1.CoTRAN, R. S.; Kumar, V.; and Robbins, S. L. Robbins Pathologie Basis of Disease, 4th ed. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1989. 2.Bientang, D. C; Kelly, L. D.; Nicholson, D. H.; and Nussenblatt, R. B. New Eng. J. Med. 323:956, 1990. 3.Cooke, R. A.; Stewart, B. Colour Aths of Anatomic Pathology. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1987. 4.Thomas, C. Sandritter Macropathology, 5th ed. Toronto: B. C. Decker, 1990. FOUR QUARTS OF IOW-30 Just this much of the planet is what I wish—enough for 3,000 miles, that's all. Listen, nothing so serious as extinction is on my mind today...

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