Word: dyspepsia
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...unnecessary and inappropriate?for Havelock Ellis is neither sensational nor combative?to suggest, as does his flamboyant biographer, that he is another Leonardo, a Professor, a Nietzschean superman, an Anglo-Saxon Tagore, a full-blooded Shaw, a Carlyle without dyspepsia, "a less unkempt Walt Whitman," "a less distracted Tolstoi" and "the complete anti-Kipling." It appears, simply, that if life is a dance, as Ellis has suggested, then he is one of the greatest, gravest dancing masters, a sane anarchist with a cosmic sense of humor...
...further earthly hopes. Three weeks before, under a local anesthetic, he had been operated upon for a stomach ulcer; and he had watched the operation with the understanding gained in his early days as a medical student. He had seemed to rally. But the long precedent persistent dyspepsia, which had made nutrition insufficient for "his active life, had been an incubus to his strength. Food he swallowed he could not assimilate.* Indirect feeding, and his powerful will-to-live, sustained him until that day. That Saturday morning the death passion set in. To his sagging jaw, as he lay propped...
Cardinal Mercier had persistent dyspepsia. There was a lesion of the stomach which a little surgical treatment would put quite to rights. But the doctors feared a 74-year-old heart might not take kindly to chloroform or ether. Without ado the Cardinal bade them anaesthetize him locally. Last week he lay on a table calmly watching a scalpel open his torso, calmly discussing with his surgeon such aspects of the human interior as he recalled from the studies made in his youth under famed Dr. Charcot in Pariss...
...class--comes but once in a lifetime. But Mem has seen many--Mem has witnessed many a class at its revelry. Perhaps this is the basis of a warmer hold on old graduates than the memory of the numerous meals there consumed, in the days before dyspepsia became their unwelcome dinner guest...
...tired world pricks up its drooping ears when it hears news of this sort, and breathes a prayer of gratitude. In the midst of turmoil and confusion, there is, then, one nation that has a care for its food, one gathering of experts who say save the universe from dyspepsia. And hearing, the world turns again to its endless labors, confident that come what may, it will at least be well...