Word: bowel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Tate places his latest works first. Readers who reverse that order will find his book more readily comprehensible, will find that few books better illustrate the professional literate's magpie-like stealing of twigs off literature's genealogical tree, his pupa-like spinning, out of a bowel-deep terror of extinction, pessimism's tight and tolerably comfortable cocoon. Irritating to some ears will be Author Tate's attempts, in many of his poems, to catch the tone of T. S. Eliot's latter-day concord of sourness and light. But in the presentation...
...dummy syringes, they were daily given one milligram of morphine per kilogram of body weight and the dose was increased to four milligrams (a much smaller intake than that of human addicts). Symptoms of addiction were increased "grooming" (scratching, skin picking, hair plucking), restlessness, nocturnal activity, gastric and bowel disturbances, slight loss of weight, increased amiability and apparent sense of wellbeing. Curiously, the pupils of the ape addicts' eyes dilated, whereas those of human drug-takers contract. The sexual effect was mixed: shortly after receiving his dose the animal would mate readily, later fly into a rage and fight...
...Trivandrum, where he met one Chidambaram Swami, who became his spiritual teacher, put him to work practising yoga in earnest. The pupil gives all the details of his training - breathing exercises, meditations, calisthenics - and observes that one of the prime necessities to spiritual advancement is a well-functioning bowel...
...funny publicity stunt developed to promote the vaudeville act of the twins and their wives. Lucio's pneumonia turned out to be rheumatic fever, a virus-caused disease, which attacked his heart, killed him fortnight ago and necessitated the severance of the thick isthmus of flesh & bowel which bound his dead body to hale & hearty Simplicio (TIME...
...which they can comfortably eat right after their operations. His theory: "The human intestinal tract is a 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...