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Master Nagger. Although he married at 39, and lived with his wife for 15 years, Bennett was neither a happy husband nor a good one. Compulsively punctual, always suffering torments from a variety of ailments from neuralgia to colic, he begrudged every moment spent away from his work. He was a master nagger; once, when his wife moved the piano in the living room by a few inches, he wrote her a four-page letter of reprimand...
...Other famous men have been martyrs to gall bladders or kidney stones. Among them: Samuel Pepys, the 17th-century English diarist who suffered most of his life from kidney and bladder stones, finally died of them; Napoleon Bonaparte, who was plagued by agonizing gallstone colic from the age of 30 until his death...
...more medical researchers learn about the benefits of mother's milk, the more wondrous a substance it seems. It helps protect the baby from such assorted ills as colic, diaper rash, gastrointestinal disorders, allergies and the common cold. Breast feeding, say some doctors, even wards off emotional disturbances later in life. And there are valuable side effects for the mother...
Died. Dr. Sidney Haas, 94, Manhattan pediatrician who in the early 1920s found cures for two of childhood's most troublesome ailments, discovering that minuscule doses of highly poisonous atropine would curb colic among infants (it is now also used by ulcer patients), and that a year-long diet of bananas would completely rehabilitate sufferers from celiac disease, which causes such acute diarrhea that one-fourth of its victims used to die from malnutrition; in Orange...
...have just read the abusive editorial of Mr. Andrew T. Well, who must be a very young man, but who writes like a crotchety old snapper afflicted with gout or perhaps colic. Apparently Mr. Weil does not like the new building. "I loathe it," he tells us; and he applies the terms "hideous," "cheap," and "sleazy" to the work of the architect. Weil, I suppose there is plenty of room for disagreement in matters of taste (though it is also true that such disagreement can always be expressed in good taste, a point not particularly well exhibited by the editorial...