Word: diarrheas
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...serviceman's wife writing thus to her husband probably suffers from a condition whose other symptoms include severe depressions, colitis, heart palpitations, diarrhea, frequent headaches. Described as a "new disease" by Dr. Jacob Sergi Kasanin, chief psychiatrist at San Francisco's Mt. Zion Hospital, this psychoneurotic condition by last week had become so prevalent among service wives that San Francisco psychiatrists were begging county authorities for the use of hospital wards to treat their patients. An estimated 2,500 women in San Francisco alone have undergone treatment for psychoneurosis during the past 18 months...
...About 100,000 treatments have been given Saipan's civilians by Army and Navy doctors and their assistants since D-plus-five. The "Midtown Pharmacy" still treats about 1,200 cases each day. Chief ailment: malnutrition, for which vitamin B1 injections are given in severe cases. Other maladies : diarrhea, worms, beriberi...
...Weak to Live. "Scurvy was conspicuous by its absence. . . . The abdominal distention was often associated with a small umbilical hernia . . . watery diarrhea and a tendency to pass food unaltered. It was difficult to persuade many of these cases to eat. . . . Many complained of cough and produced a white frothy sputum which I took to be due to edema of the lungs. . . . The heart was sometimes moderately enlarged and the heart sounds diminished in volume. . . . A more or less severe secondary anemia was invariably present. . . . Amenorrhea and sterility were extremely common...
...Epidemic diarrhea and vomiting of unknown cause is what Dr. Hobart Ansteth Reimann and associates of Philadelphia call widespread epidemics of the familiar 24-to-48-hour diarrhea and vomiting (commonly known as intestinal flu, gyppy tummy, the trots, molly-grables), which almost everyone has had at some time or other. Since the disorder cannot always be traced to food (TIME, June 19), the doctors think it may be a virus infection, possibly transmitted through the nose as well as the mouth...
...removed after two months, conditions were no better. Prisoners were put to work on roads; those who faltered even for a moment were beaten and clubbed by their guards. Sometimes as many as 75% of a work detail failed to return to camp. Disease touched everyone: beri beri, dysentery, diarrhea, malaria, scurvy, blindness, diphtheria, jaundice and dengue fever. Those who attempted to escape were beaten, kicked and jumped on, then tied to posts in the open sun for two days before being beheaded or shot...