Word: diarrheas
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...General Leonard Heaton who operated on the President. On Ike's medical future, professionals vary in their prognostications, but think that the President is in danger of more trouble. The trouble, if it comes at all, could range from occasional minor intestinal distress, through recurrent disabling attacks of diarrhea, low fever and malaise, to a need for more surgery. The course of ileitis is so variable that doctors cannot dogmatize about the outcome of an individual case. Explains Dr. Everett Duane Kiefer of Boston's famed Lahey Clinic: "There are few diseases which should leave the physician with...
...right ankle, but thought nothing of it. Feeling fit on Monday, Sakacs, a retired Navy chief petty officer, put in a full day's work as a mechanic on a water research project at the Port Hueneme naval base. That night he had chills and fever and diarrhea, so he took the following day off and went to see an osteopath. He got a shot of penicillin, quinine for a suspected recurrence of malaria, and aspirin for the aches and pains−which were worst in his right groin. There was a slight lump there, too. Two days later...
Like much of the U.S. population at the turn of the century. Theodore Roosevelt suffered periodically from what was unhandily called cholera morbus−an acute inflammation of the digestive tract, with diarrhea, cramps and vomiting. He took "cholera" medicine with him on his hunting trips to Wyoming's Big Horns. But it was not until after T.R. became President that the prime cause of cholera morbus became known: spoiled food...
Upwards of 40 Moors Hall girls were struck down Friday evening and Saturday by what local fish-wives refer to "the green death." Harvard medico-legal experts, however, attributed the sudden onset of vomiting and diarrhea to "a gastroenteritis, consistent with a bacterial contamination...
...growing list of undesirable side effects resulting from treatment with antibiotics, Manhattan's Dr. Jerome Weiss last week added one that most patients may prefer not to talk about, though it can be both painful and serious: antibiotic diarrhea. It is, Weiss told the Michigan Academy of General Practice in Detroit, "a new entity." Besides high frequency of bowel movements, symptoms include distressing itching around the anus, nausea, vomiting and severe abdominal cramps...