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...mercury. One grain is usually enough to kill. Taken in solution, the tablets painfully sear the mouth and throat. Swallowed whole, they may cause no pain for 30 or 40 minutes, or twice that time if the victim's stomach is full. Then follow abdominal cramps, vomiting, frequent bowel movements. Soon the poison seeps to the kidneys, stops the flow of urine. Pain varies with the dose and individual but is usually not agonizing. Victims fall into a coma, die within...
...WiIliam James Mayo (the elder brother) remarks in Cancer: "Inasmuch as the testis is the primitive organ of procreation from which the ovary is derived, it has a protective heredity behind it." Similarly the small intestine is less susceptible to Cancer than its newer connections, the stomach and large bowel...
Twenty-five years ago this array was otherwise. Tuberculosis then was the chief cause of death. But doctors have taught defense against contaminated surroundings. People have learned to guard themselves. So typhoid, yellow and scarlet fevers, diphtheria, cholera and babies' bowel troubles are no longer pandemic and rarely epidemic in civilized countries. People live, on the average, ten years longer now than they...
...such cases require the intervention of the surgeon. Sometimes their symptoms elude the casual diagnosis of the doctor. Certainly the family medico, the housewife, cannot recognize them. So Dr. Lockwood urges prudence against too free use of bowel-evacuating agents...
...Laxatives loosen the bowel contents and allow comfortable expulsion. Purgatives, especially cathartics, irritate the intestinal muscles to more or less violent peristalsis evacuating...