Word: diarrheas
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...privy last week, four bumpkin students from nearby Salem College, Senator Holt's alma mater, whizzed by in an automobile, tossed corncobs at his feet. Unperturbed, the tall, grave physician proceeded to point out that up to 1932 some 1,000 West Virginia children died of flux (contagious diarrhea), 250 citizens of typhoid fever every year, that at the rate of decrease which has accompanied the Relief privy program West Virginia would be entirely rid of those diseases within five years...
...babies in the maternity ward of Teaneck, N. J.'s Holy Name Hospital died of spasms and diarrhea...
Diet & Acidosis. Acidosis, or the loss of alkaline substances from the body, is not a disease but a serious condition which aggravates pregnancy, infantile diarrhea, infectious diseases, diabetes, kidney and heart troubles. People who diet are apt to develop it, especially women. The women's risk, said Professor Harry James Deuel of the University of Southern California, "is associated with the inability of women to oxidize fat during starvation as completely as males. For this reason, an accumulation of incompletely oxidized end products, which are organic acids, occurs in the female...
...often fatal intestinal ailment which produces diarrhea, mouth ulcers, anemia, great loss of weight...
Amebic dysentery's symptoms-severe abdominal pain, acute diarrhea, heavy discharge of mucus and blood-do not appear until 18 to 90 days after infection. To Alfred Emanuel Smith, James Aloysius Farley and some 18,000 other persons who had stayed at one of the infested hotels during the summer, Chicago's Board of Health dispatched guarded inquiries about their health. Those who reported illness were urged to consult physicians. Most cases of amebic dysentery can be cured if treated early. But U. S. physicians, unacquainted with it, often diagnose it as ulcerated colitis, peritonitis, appendicitis. Mary Louise...