Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third of all elderly women have gallstones. If a patient suffers recurring attacks of colic-sharp pains in the right ribs and under the right shoulder blade-she had best have her gall bladder removed. There is no method of dissolving gallstones, no medical treatment to cure colic, no diet which will heal a scarred sac. Once her gall bladder is removed, a woman can get on very well, provided she follows a bland diet...
Ulcers. There are two main types of ulcers in the digestive tract: 1) those of the duodenum (pronounced du-oh-dee'-num); 2) those of the stomach. For both, a mild, milky diet and a calm, easy life may bring relief. Ulcers of the duodenum may be removed by a surgeon, but usually they return in worse form. Only consolation: duodenal ulcers practically never turn into cancer...
...fled the clatter of U.S. civilization. They live in two kinds of monasteries: cenobite (communistic) and idiorrhythmic (allowing private property, which reverts to the monastery). Many of them lead a truly monkish life of prayer and Church scholarship, a shabby life without bathing or toothbrushing, with a meatless diet and only brief snatches of sleep, because "sleep inflames the body." They live on contributions and on the making and selling of wine, farm products, religious paintings and trinkets. Some are so ignorant or unworldly that they have heard only vaguely of Adolf Hitler-"a great German king who slays...
...encyclopedia of food by a diet expert who loves to eat was published last week by Dr. Asa Crawford Chandler of Rice Institute, Houston, Tex. Dr. Chandler seldom counts calories, is never finicky. He claims that the flesh of rattlesnakes is "delicious and nutritious," that "grasshoppers, caterpillars and termites . . . afford wholesome food if there is no acquired aversion." Besides these odd chips of information, Dr. Chandler's book (The Eater's Digest, Farrar & Rinehart; $2.75) is packed with practical discussions on such things as digestion, nutritional diseases, bellyaches, diet during pregnancy, ravenous children, vitamins...
...Devil and Miss Jones (RKO Radio). It is a jolt for any old-style tycoon with a jumpy stomach and a cracker-&-milk diet to pick up the morning paper and see that he has been hanged in effigy outside a big department store he can't recall owning. It is particularly hard for old John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), a bachelor so rich and powerful that his picture hasn't appeared in the newspapers for 20 years...