Word: diarrheas
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...Acute diarrhea kills thousands of babies yearly. Doctors do not know its cause or cure. But Drs. Allan H. Twyman and George R. Horton of Indianapolis reported in the Journal of the A.M.A. last week that they had obtained hopeful results on newborn infants with succinylsulfathiazole, a sulfa drug used in some other digestive infections. Of eleven babies treated, only two died (the doctors think those two might have been cured with larger doses). Of eleven untreated babies, four died and the others were sick twice as long as the sulfa-treated ones...
...stomach. (This happened when an officious clinic secretary angered him.) More than any other emotion, anxiety increased the amount of blood in the stomach membrane and the amount of acid secretion. When Tom was anxious (e.g., worry about his stepdaughter's illness and death), he had diarrhea and no appetite, and he was wakened in the night by acid juices escaping from his stomach. Though Tom did not want food when he was worried, the doctors found that, if he ate, his digestion rate was faster than normal. Hence they conclude that not the stomach, but the emotions determine...
...Infectious enteritis, a not necessarily fatal intestinal disease, is characterized by fever, emaciation, diarrhea (but not always). Sanitation and isolation are the methods of control. There is no specific treatment, but feeding oats soaked with salt water sometimes gives good results...
...careless, tubercle bacilli survive (TIME, Jan. 4). He gives instances when even careful pasteurization (about 144° F. for 30 minutes) did not kill all harmful bacteria. Among those left alive: streptococci involved in some poliomyelitis epidemics, spore-forming organisms (chiefly intestinal bacteria of cattle, capable of causing diarrhea in infants), acidophilus and pneumococci-like organisms...
...necessary to make us appreciate our duties, bring back the troops from the hellholes of the world, place them in the factories-take the war workers and place them in the foxholes with filth, vermin, diarrhea, malaria and the Japanese, and I will guarantee you that our production will be increased, and much of it doubled, within 30 days. We would have no more featherbedding, no more slowdowns, no more restrictions on effort...