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Almost every year an outbreak of acute gatro-intestinal disturbance occurs among the student body. The usual symptoms are sudden in onset, with abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhea and prostration. The illness usually lasts two or three days. This type of outbreak occurs in every university, college and preparatory school in the land. They are no more frequent in colleges than in institutions, hotels, and restaurants that serve food to large numbers of people. They are more striking, however, because in the college, all cases come to the attention of the authorities, whereas restaurant and hotel guests scatter and seldom report...
...energy to be dissipated than the body can afford to expend. Immediate source for this energy is sugar in the blood. The blood gets its supply from sugar stored in the liver. When the liver's store runs out, a thyroid crisis is apt to develop. Delirium, vomiting, diarrhea, temperatures of 105 degrees to 106 degrees ensue. Infections such as tonsillitis or abscessed teeth accentuate this condition. Explained Dr. Lahey...
...change in a patient's psychic state should be accepted as an indication of the onset of a possibly serious thyroid state. Nothing will more certainly foretell such a state than the appearance of diarrhea or vomiting as the result of an increase in the hyperthyroidism. One must realize that with the appearance of these two symptoms, the most unfavorable conditions possible for this disease come into play. The combustion process associated with hyperthyroidism continues, but the ability to provide combustible fuel for this increased metabolism is lost, with the result that the patient suffers not only from...
...first, or stimulating phase, when there is a fair chance of facing the facts; the second, or inhibiting period, marked by self-indulgence, wandering attention, faulty observation; the third, or paralyzing stage, when bodily disorders set in, ranging from stomach ulcers, hyperacidity, twitchings, tremors, stammering, to pyloric spasms, constipation, diarrhea, insomnia...
Symptoms: Mind "apprehensive, alert, anxious and restless . . . a peculiar analogy [to symptoms] seen in pneumonia.'' Closed eyelids tremble. "Gnawing hunger pain in pains the of ulcer.'' epigastrium not Gurgling unlike in the the intestines "and sometimes a mild watery diarrhea. . . . Increase in sexual functions...