Word: colics
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...with his wife's 17-year-old sister Nancy, who lived with them. This much was clear: one night while the Randolphs and Nancy were visiting relatives, Nancy roused the household with "the unmistakable animal scream of a woman in labor." She swore she was only suffering from colic; but a week later, after the Randolphs had gone back home to their own plantation, the body of a newborn baby was found in the woodpile...
Free, she lighted a cigaret, stared into the distance, fingered a half pound of religious medals and denied the whole business. "I am not a bruja [witch]," said she. By week's end many of her clients disappointedly agreed: the district attorney had not yet suffered from cramps, colic, or cast in the eye, had apparently felt no overpowering urge to eat glass or stick his head into an airplane propeller...
...luck struck early. On the very first day, Napoleon fell off his horse-a bad omen. The horses got colic from eating green crops, and in ten days one third of the cavalry was lost. By the time they reached Vilna, 50.000 men were lost from sickness alone. The Russians fought sharp rearguard actions almost to Moscow, stood at Borodino, killed 25,000 Frenchmen. Having entered most of the first cities of Europe except Moscow, the soldiers were eager to sweep into Moscow. But the Russians burned the town as they entered...
Gallstones. About one-third of all elderly women have gallstones. If a patient suffers recurring attacks of colic-sharp pains in the right ribs and under the right shoulder blade-she had best have her gall bladder removed. There is no method of dissolving gallstones, no medical treatment to cure colic, no diet which will heal a scarred sac. Once her gall bladder is removed, a woman can get on very well, provided she follows a bland diet...
...seven unpronounceable Gothic towers of Boston College and the supporting backfield cast is in for an artistic pasting from Tulane's Green Wave in New Orleans this afternoon. The CRIMSON's exclusive correspondent covering the game, the "Southern Sage," wires that several B. C. stars are stricken with colic and rickets. Tulane 27 Boston College 6 Boston University 21 Norwich 0 Bowdoin 13 Tufts 0 Vermont 6 Northeastern 0 Holy Cross 30 Providence 0 Brown 13 Wesleyan 0 Williams 7 Middlebury 0 Rhode Island 10 Maine 0 Bates 20 American I. C. 0 Michigan 13 California 7 Minnesota 14 Washington...