Word: bileful
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...face himself without flinching. As a first step he went back to Chicago and took his degree. Then he got a job teaching, first at his old college in Salt Lake City, then in Manhattan. All this time Athene was spiritually holding his head, watching him spit out the bile. Eventually he regurgitated the cause of all the trouble: he had been an idealist, a blind prig. From then on he was ready to try any dish to find his proper diet...
...where the French Films were being shown, Ogle's representation and description created great amusement. He characterized the medieval medico as offering to his patients the talents of a barber, an spotheoary, an alchemist, and a sorcerer. In his acute diagnosis of disease the "medecin" included only Black Bile. Phlegm and Bed Blood, while bleeding with leeches was his most potent cure...
...gall bladder is a slender, pear-shaped sac attached to the under side of the liver. Its purpose is to receive, concentrate and store the bile which the liver produces and, after a meal containing bacon, cream or other fats, to squirt some of its supply into the intestines. Typhoid fever germs occasionally slip into the gall bladder and tenaciously resist all medical efforts to dislodge them. They make a chronic typhoid carrier of the person whose gall bladder they infest...
...station WEAN now bombard the British Isles with short wave advertisements, try to wean His Majesty's subjects from their favorite liver pills to others. The pill now chiefly plugged by President Plugge was announced before the holidays cheerily thus : "You must be ready for Christmas! Begin taking Bile Beans right away...
...Kidney and gallstones are the commonest accretions in the body. Kidney stones, caused by defective kidneys permitting salts to precipitate from the urine, are chiefly mineral (calcium oxalate, calcium phosphate, sodium urate). Gallstones are masses of organic cholesterin gathered from the bile by a lazy or infected gall bladder...