Word: gastric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chronic seasickness" was his reason for leaving the Royal Navy last spring. Later he had to give up even desk work at the Foreign Office because of "digestive trouble" (TIME, July 29). Last week it was an nounced that prudent dieting has soothed and strengthened H. R. H.'s gastric ap paratus. On and after Oct. i he will be back again at his Foreign Office stint...
...Gastric Juice. Total loss of gastric juice causes death in five to eight days, unless Ringer's solution (sodium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate and distilled water) is injected into the veins. Even so death is delayed at the most 76 days.?Chicago's Lester Reynold Dragstedt and James C. Ellis...
...time since Georges ("Le Tigre") Clemenceau had his removed over five years ago. It was now a case of dealing with the prostate gland of Raymond ("Le Lion") Poincare. At the time of his resignation as Prime Minister the illness of the "Lion of Lorraine" was described as "gastric fever'' (TIME, July 29). Last week, however, the precise facts were made known by Surgeons Marion and Cosset...
...course of the present debt debate (TIME, July 22), he had addressed the Chamber for a total of more than 37 hours (three or four hours daily) reading every word from sheets covered with his neat, almost microscopic handwriting. Result: the strain gave him a high "gastric fever," his physician last week imperatively tucked him into...
...medicine Drs. Rehfuss' and Marcil's discoveries have several diagnostic values. Persons giving a similar gastric response to bread and meat cannot be considered normal. Gastric digestion of meat is some-what impaired in heart and kidney diseases, in blood poisoning. In peptic ulcer, meat digestion is not impaired so far as concerns the stomach's ability to secrete gastric juices. If a patient fails to secrete the juices on both meat and bread diets, that is serious. Such failure is a sign of cancer of the stomach, of pernicious anemia, of delayed healing in lobar pneumonia...