Word: diarrheas
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...could not recall the names of regular customers, or what to charge them for a permanent. After four weeks she saw a doctor: he had no idea what to do, and for three days more she felt that she was "shaking all over inside"; she had backache, dizziness, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. During a month in the hospital she developed some new symptoms : spells of rapid, pounding heartbeat, periods of frantic overbreathing. Gradually the symptoms abated. But as soon as she went home and started light housekeeping, she had a sharp relapse and had to spend three more weeks...
...Reform administrations suffer from a diarrhea of promises and a constipation of performance...
...Board Chairman Victor van der Linde reported to MBS that he had cut his appropriation for radio spots to a piddling $100,000. Reason: the "sheer multiplicity" of plugs, including many for competing products within a few minutes of each other, proves that stations are suffering from "a diarrhea of orders" and "haven't got enough sense to keep up the entertainment values...
...century ago, most hospitals disliked admitting child patients; when they did, they consigned them to the women's wards. Commonest child's complaint was diarrhea. In those days, it was often fatal, frequently spread to patients throughout the wards. Innumerable youngsters were victims of malnutrition diseases such as rickets and scurvy, human or bovine tuberculosis (scrofula), malformations or infections of the bones, but few hospitals were equipped to deal with these maladies. Then three years after the Civil War had ended, a young veteran of Gettysburg returned to Boston from a postwar refresher tour of Europe...
After trying this revolutionary routine with 600 babies, Dr. Sackett is convinced that they have fewer feeding problems than average, less vomiting and diarrhea, and that they develop normally. Their mothers, he reports, are enthusiastic...