Word: diarrheas
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...instance, students no longer eat certain kinds of pies because the sanitation staff found they tended to create gastroenteritis. In '49 a rash of sickness was traced to a contaminated meat cutter. Dining hall employees now get lectures on how to handle food, and a diarrhea epidemic in Andover court was stopped a few years ago when Dr. George Moore found its source in a clogged sewage system...
...sargents-at-arms, Committee members, attorneys, and delegates hunted for him; when all proved fruitless, the case opened anyway. Soon, however, looking more frightened than ever, Mr. Julia appeared, apparently from the recesses of the hotel lavatory where, some said, he had been struggling with a bout of nervous diarrhea...
...morning, and I bit on something soft; what do you think it was?" A private suggested: "A worm?" "No, by God." said the sergeant, "it was a tenpenny nail." One soldier summed up: "It goes perty greasey Sometimes." One statistic tells the whole story: more Union soldiers died from diarrhea and dysentery (57,265) than were killed in battle...
...Saipan in 1949, when 55 Filipinos sat down to a feast of eel. Before the night was out, two were dead, one had to have his larynx slit to save him from choking to death, and the rest had suffered from a variety of symptoms ranging from vomiting, diarrhea and cramps to the staggers, paralysis and convulsions. Last February in Hawaii, there were 24 similar cases, all traced to fish imported from Palmyra Island. So far, there have been few clear-cut cases reported from the temperate zone; nearly all have been from the tropics...
Like the nine other hopheads in the roundup, Peggy agreed to let Dr. Hogness go to work. For the first three days of the seven-day course he gave the ACTH intravenously, then switched to muscle injections. Peggy's response was spectacular. Though profuse sweating, cramps, headaches, diarrhea and vomiting usually occur during withdrawal, Peggy suffered from none of these. Her baby was born and showed no sign of addiction...