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...gets surcease only when she is sound asleep, and for sound sleep she often has to take drugs. Awake, she has sneezed as often as every two seconds, and has never gone more than 15 minutes without the spasms that now cause pain in her nose, ears, chest and abdomen. A high school sophomore, she has had to give up classes. Jackson Memorial specialists tried antihistamines, tranquilizers, central-nervous-system depressants, narcotics, X rays, antibiotics, local astringents, hypnotism, shock treatment and muscle relaxants-all to no avail...
...effects of severe lactase deficiency can be both distressing and dramatic. After drinking a glass of milk, the victim soon doubles up with cramps that may spread across his entire distended abdomen. He suffers nausea and flatulence, and then a profuse, watery diarrhea. The mechanism of these reactions has now become clear, say Dr. Struthers and his Colorado colleague, Dr. Fred Kern Jr. Lactase is supposed to do its sugar-splitting work along the lining of the small bowel; if the enzyme is missing or in short supply, the undigested sugar passes into the large bowel, where it is promptly...
...suffered an emotional trauma, and in an unconscious attempt to elude the consequences changed his address and his mistress, never suspecting that Freud is not so easily mocked and that, in fact, one morning a few months later he would "pee blood," suffer frightful pains in his abdomen and shortly thereafter undergo an ulcer operation only to discover that he has no ulcer, that in fact there isn't a doctor in Italy who can explain his symptoms, which nevertheless increase in severity and peculiarity, the pains accompanied more and more often by such vivid evidences of acute anxiety...
...engorged and impinge upon the erect nipples. The breasts increase in size by 20% to 25%. ∙PLATEAU. A pink mottling appears over the chest, spreads to the breasts and "actually coalesces in the terminal stages, to suggest an advanced state of measles." The mottling may spread over the abdomen, shoulders, and even the hollows inside the elbows. The labia minora become enlarged to about twice their normal size as tension increases, and turn a deeper, scarlet hue (purplish in a woman who has borne several children). The intensity of sexual response is directly proportional to this color change...
...ambush hit us," recalls the chunky Florida Negro. "There were Viet Cong everywhere-in the grass, in the trees and bushes, and in holes. The guy in front of me was killed. The guy behind the guy behind me was killed. There were all kinds of wounds-head, chest, abdomen, legs and arms. The captain and the sergeant major, they were killed. We formed a perimeter-really just a circle of people trying to protect themselves. "That's where I treated the wounded. I was just doing...