Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shocked when a fellow worker dropped dead of a heart attack. He began to have "heartburn" himself. He did not confide his trouble to his wife, and it grew worse. He went to the hospital. When Drs. Mittelmann & Wolff did their experiment on him, his stomach acid rose...
This experiment was reported last week at a convention of the American Psychological Association and affiliated societies at Pennsylvania State College. It was intended to measure something that psychologists and doctors have long believed and all sufferers knew anyway-that distressing emotions cause increased amounts of hydrochloric acid to be poured out in the stomach, are thus linked to such stomach disorders as "heartburn," dyspepsia, gastric ulcer. The experimenters were Drs. Bela Mittelmann of New York Post-Graduate Hospital and Harold Wolff of Cornell Medical College. Not only did they find that emotion induced increase of stomach acid, but they...
...year-old man had been ousted from home by his family and jailed for stealing, was living meagrely on Federal relief, his pride had been wounded by a hospital doorman who refused to let him use the visitors' entrance. On airing his tribulations his stomach acid first dropped, then rose, reaching a peak when his anger was manifestly greatest. Bloody shreds and bile were also found in the specimens...
...year-old man with duodenal ulcer who had married a servant girl was on bad terms with her, was having an affair with another servant. He felt that his standing in the community, once high, was crumbling. When he was tested like the others, his acid flow was quadrupled...
Nehemiah Kenison knew a good business when he saw it. He examined the acid, went to Boston, where he set up an office opposite Old South Church. Nehemiah generously taught his trick to his sons and half a dozen relatives, who taught others. So began the science of chiropody...