Word: diarrheas
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...that also irritates the skin, loses effectiveness in about three minutes; CS (o-chlorobenzalmalononi-trile), a pungent agent developed by the British, of all people, that stings the eyes, causes chest pains, choking and vomiting for up to 15 minutes; and DM (Adamsite), a peppery-smelling gas that causes diarrhea, chest and head pains, and lasts up to two hours...
...childhood's most troublesome ailments, discovering that minuscule doses of highly poisonous atropine would curb colic among infants (it is now also used by ulcer patients), and that a year-long diet of bananas would completely rehabilitate sufferers from celiac disease, which causes such acute diarrhea that one-fourth of its victims used to die from malnutrition; in Orange...
...baby seems normal at birth but soon appears listless, fails to gain weight, and suffers from jaundice, vomiting and diarrhea, his mother can hardly be expected to know that he may lack the enzyme galactose1 -phosphate uridyl transferase. Neither can doctors, unless they send samples of the baby's blood and urine for timeconsuming, costly lab tests. Then, if the tests show an excess of galactose (milk sugar) in the blood or urine, doctors know what the trouble is and how to remedy...
...Washington State last year was also traced to a frozen-egg product used in lemon meringue pies. Modern mass-production methods of food processing sometimes help spread salmonella, for one bad egg, one bad chicken, can contaminate a carload. A healthy person generally gets over salmonella-caused attacks of diarrhea, vomiting and mild fever in two to five days, but in persons already weakened by other diseases, food poisoning can be fatal. In any case, say U.S. Public Health Service doctors, who share the A.M.A.'s concern about salmonella's upsurge, the problem would be solved if only...
...leader as omnipotent, and the leader in turn "embraces the gratifying role of omnipotence" that every parent cherishes. Under some particularly trying circumstance, this illusion of omnipotence may "sweep the leader along to his destruction." The trying circumstance in Lee's case was that he was suffering from diarrhea, naively assumed by Southern historians to have been caused by the eating of fruit "in the fertile Pennsylvania countryside," but more probably "it was psychosomatic, caused by his manifested worry over absence of any word for several weeks from the missing Jeb Stuart and his cavalry." His "debilitated physical condition...