Word: colics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other saintly patrons against physical ills: Giles (cripples), Erasmus (colic and cramps), Vitus (epilepsy, nervousness), Lawrence (lumbago), Benedict (poison), Timothy (stomach trouble), Apollonia (toothache), Anthony (pestilence), Catherine of Siena (headache), Thomas (blindness...
...exist, and therefore that his actions can have no effect on other minds, or that his mind is universal to such a degree that all which is important to him is important to all. From such a cosmic attitude the fact that poor bookworms suffer from painter's colic is negligible. In his underlining the egoist is making a modest bid for immortality; a modest bid, for his admirers can never penetrate his anonymity. The difficulty is that in taking a philosophic attitude in dealing with common property one is more likely to prove oneself untouchable than to prove...
...humiliation, and the difficulties of maintaining a job, that childbirth involves in our society? That they love the frightful ordeal of childbirth, so seldom relieved by competent medical treatment? That they love to spend 40,000 or 50,000 hours washing diapers, getting up in the night, tending colic, meeting in a city flat the little savages' requirements of safe outdoor activity and companionship, stewing soups and milks, acting as household drudges, and either abstaining from the life of the outer world entirely or else staggering under the double burden of a very inferior position outside and work...
...death was sudden, frightful, mysterious. His trainer, Tommy Woodcock, who always slept within a few feet of Phar Lap's stall, had gone into the stall early in the morning and found Phar Lap lying down. He had called Phar Lap's veterinary, Dr. Walter Nielsen. They diagnosed colic. As the big, long-legged carcass stiffened, Dr. Nielsen took out its stomach and entrails. These told him that Phar Lap had been ill two days...
Often it is difficult to distinguish the pains of appendicitis from those of tuberculosis, pneumonia or pleurisy. Actinomycosis, a fungus infection which causes abscesses, may simulate appendicitis. A mistake in diagnosis may result from the presence of colic of the bile or of the kidneys, inflammation of the kidneys, stricture of the right ureter (through which the right kidney drains into the bladder). Diseases of women's sexual apparatus may act like appendicitis. Especially confusing in this respect is menstrual colic, from which many a flabby and nervous woman suffers. And infections of the intestines may spread...