Word: bowel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hagerty (reading): He had a good bowel movement...
...White: Now I put that in-which I insisted be put in, and I am sure the others agreed to it because it is. I said the country will be very pleased-the country is so bowel-minded anyway-to know that the President had a good movement this morning, and it is important. It is good for the morale of the people for one thing . . . Also he perspired a good deal in the first 36 hours, and so he lost fluid that way. He replaced it. He drank a good deal and has kept up all right. But that...
...viscid mucus, with frequent infections like pneumonia, and wheezy breathing or persistent, hacking cough. The other set of symptoms affects the pancreas, which fails to deliver the normal quota of enzymes to the digestive system, so that children eat voraciously but fail to gain weight, and have frequent, abnormal bowel movements...
There are four ways, the four researchers found, in which nature helps the body to adjust itself after such radical surgery 1) some lost weight stays lost; 2) the absorptive power of the bowel wall increases; 3) the remaining small bowel gets bigger (it may double in diameter), allowing still more absorption; and 4) the large intestine learns to do some of the work of the shortened small intestine...