Word: bowel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some zealous doctors used to advocate training tiny babies to evacuate at regular hours. Mothers would set their infants on "toidy seats," fight with them to move their bowels. Such strict training, said Dr. Aldrich, makes bowel control a reflex act, rather than a conscious process. When the stimulus of the toidy is transferred to a regular seat, the training is lost and the whole fight must begin all over again. A child can go dirty and play in his puddles, said some of the doctors, until he understands what a toilet...
...potentially harmful 'foreign proteins' that come from a cow." Adults may become sensitized to some foods because "on a certain occasion they ate so much of some food that all of it could not be digested and some of it passed unchanged through the wall of the bowel and into the blood stream." Skin tests to find annoying foods give "erratic results," are a waste of money...