Word: bileful
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Such worms may travel from the intestines to the stomach whence they may be vomited, to the nose, to the middle ear, to the larynx where they occasionally cause fatal suffocation, to the common bile duct where they may cause jaundice, to the pancreas, to the vermiform appendix. A child who suffers from digestive disturbances, capricious appetite, abdominal pains, gas, vomiting, restlessness and irritability, itchy nose, grinding of the teeth, foul breath, headache, dizziness, cough, convulsions, anemia, peakedness may be suffering from roundworms...
Chronic irritation always seems to be the immediate cause of cancer whether the victim is genetically vulnerable or not. The irritation may be mechanical (ill-fitting dentures), physical (pipe smokers' lips), chemical (tar roofers' hands), digestive (caused by bile acids), endocrine (caused by sex hormones). Said Dr. James Bumgardner Murphy of Manhattan...
...American Pharmaceutical Association's convention in Dallas last week Dr. Paul Goedrich of the New Jersey College of Pharmacy described a new iodine-bile compound called iodocholeate. On the basis of 2,000 clinical tests, iodocholeate has been found...
...hillbilly town. Appearing on the platform with a roll of carpet under his arm, Candidate Reynolds described the spectacle of Senator Morrison driving up in his Rolls-Royce to the entrance of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. "And when he gets down out of his Rolls auto-moe-bile," boomed Bob Rey nolds, "Cam's footman takes this here roll of carpet like this - " Whist! Reynolds unrolled the carpet on the platform, strutted across it pompously to the imaginary doorway of the Mayflower. "And do you know," roared Reynolds, "what he eats in that there hotel? He eats...
...muscular tube, the mucous membrane of which secretes digestive ferments and the motility of which is largely dependent upon these ferments and the presence and character of the food material in the bowel. Activity of the liver, the chemical engine of the body, and the secretion of bile is greatly influenced by the amount and the variety of ingested food. Whenever starvation supervenes, and the usual hospital liquid diet is really semistarvation, the bacteria normally present in the bowel increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus. If lack of the food to which the upper bowel is accustomed continues...