Word: diarrheas
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...Missouri camp he soon began to make regular appearances at sick call. The medics tested his eyes, ordered glasses for him. Amborski complained of low back pain, but they could find nothing wrong with his back. His appetite fell off. He went back to the dispensary complaining of diarrhea. The corpsmen gave him bismuth cocktails. Stanley wrote to his father: "Get me out of here, Dad. I'm going to fall dead soon...
...Truman, now president of the American Academy of General Practice, got set on the right path when still in the University of California Medical School. Said an examiner: "A patient consults you for an acute attack of diarrhea and cramps. Discuss the diagnosis and treatment." Student Truman "discussed the differential diagnosis and the various therapeutic possibilities, but I never mentioned giving the patient relief from cramps and diarrhea." He was graded "F" (for failure) with the brisk comment: "Very scientific -nature will have cured the disease while you are making the diagnosis. This patient will never call on you again...
...babies born in the U.S. at the turn of the century died before they were old enough to go to school. Today, if a child reaches his first birthday, he will almost surely reach high-school age. Reason : many of the leading child-killers of the past-diarrhea, whooping cough, diphtheria, scarlet fever-have been all but conquered. Pneumonia, heart diseases, TB and cancer still take a heavy toll, but even these killers are being discouraged by medical progress in treatment and early diagnosis...
Grubs in the Garden. A 28-year-old California housewife, mother of three was relieved of the ileum and all but two feet of the jejunum, leaving her (with the duodenum) about three feet of small intestine. After two years, her only complaint is diarrhea, usually traceable to fatigue or strain. She does all the housework and scrabbles in the garden without ill effects...
...Merry-Go-Round brushes Harry Truman off as little more than "a spear carrier from the mob scene," and deplores his "government by crony." Yet the G.O.P., say Allen & Shannon, is worse-a "Dark Age Brigade" full of "Piltdown men" and "mental Charley horses" with "intellectual constipation, verbal diarrhea and varicose egotism...