Word: anus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost generation. The Dream Life of Balso Snell seems on the surface like one of those near-sophomoric, painfully private japes played for the semiprivate public of a little magazine. It concerns the dream adventures of Balso Snell, a poet, who enters a Trojan Horse from the rear end ("Anus Mirabilis!"), and encounters a number of symbolic characters in the murky interior scenery...
...human digestive tract can become inflamed anywhere along its 25-to-35-ft. length from gullet to anus. Inflammation of the stomach (gastritis) or large bowel (colitis) is common. For reasons that medical researchers have not yet fathomed, inflammation of the ileum, the lower third of the small bowel, is far less common. It escaped description as a recognized disease until 1932, when Dr. Burrill Crohn, of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, listed its symptoms and put a name to it: regional ileitis. Usually it is limited to the last couple of loops in the small intestine before...
...week added one that most patients may prefer not to talk about, though it can be both painful and serious: antibiotic diarrhea. It is, Weiss told the Michigan Academy of General Practice in Detroit, "a new entity." Besides high frequency of bowel movements, symptoms include distressing itching around the anus, nausea, vomiting and severe abdominal cramps...
Strangely, Drs. Spock and Lowenberg seem not to have got the word that spinach, far from being a great bodybuilder, can actually be bad for growing children (TIME, March 30, 1953). All they concede is that if it causes chapping of the lips or anus, it is well to "omit it for several months and try again." That sounds more like old Dr. Holt...
Following their stress on the importance of the role of the family the authors studied the history of delinquency, criminals, alcoholism, mental deficiency, emotional disturbances, and serious physical ailments not only in the immediate family, but in the grandparents, anus uncles. They also studied the cultural, psychological and emotional conditions in the home and the boy's progress in school...