Word: bicarb
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...that sodium bicarbonate, the kitchen's ever-present help in time of heartburn, may cause alkali poisoning and dangerous gaseous distention of the stomach. But it remained for Glasgow's Dr. Andrew Greig Melrose to report, in the Scottish Medical Journal, a case of outright addiction to bicarb, an addiction so intense that the victim suffered severe withdrawal sickness when taken off the stuff...
...attention. Then, in hospital because of a stroke, he was denied bicarbonate. "This at once produced a violent emotional reaction," reported Dr. Melrose, "and he became restless, aggressive and difficult to handle." The doctors decided to taper him off, gave him successively smaller doses until at last the bicarb was completely withdrawn...
...most of his first Presidential Christmas as he has done for decades-eating three big dinners: one each with his 93-year-old mother, his mother-in-law, Mrs. David W. Wallace, 83; and his aunt, Mrs. Margaret Truman Noland, 96. But the President would not need any sodium bicarb; he is a moderate eater...