Word: gastric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Herman Michael Hickman, 46, behemoth (more than 300 Ibs. at top weight) radio-TV sports figure, contributing editor and football expert of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, onetime (1948-52) head football coach at Yale, author (The Herman Hickman Reader), wit. storyteller, versifier; of complications following an operation for gastric ulcer; in Washington, B.C. A sideline Santa Claus who could quote Shakespeare by the act, Hickman won such popularity at Yale that the university once gave him the longest contract in its history (ten years) despite his not Merriwell-done record: when he resigned in 1952 in favor of a radio...
...major exception: cases of bleeding ulcers. Patients allowed to eat what they want have done at least as well as the rigidly controlled, if not better. All ulcer patients react too strongly to stress. "So if a patient falls off the milk wagon, his guilt feelings may cause the gastric glands to secrete more acid...
...gastric tolerance is concerned, no published report to date approaches, in our opinion, the caliber of our recent Michigan study. There, tablets of Bufferin, the four leading commercial brands of aspirin, and an inert placebo were administered on different occasions to each of 146 human subjects who presented a history of previous stomach upset from each of the four brands of aspirin. Less than 7% of the subjects reacted to Bufferin. That suggestibility played no role whatever in these studies is evident in that only one of the 146 subjects noted stomach upset from the inert placebo...
...half years ago he went commercial, farmed out subcontracts for the gruesome gewgaws to a few ex-patients, now makes more money peddling the trinkets than he does as a radiologist. Some of his bestselling designs: a coiled white intestinal tract with a bright red, about-to-burst appendix; gastric resection with or without ulcer; a uterus and Fallopian tubes with cancer of the cervix (available, like the rest of the doodads, as earrings) ; a Daliesque assortment of unblinking, bloodshot eyes...
...Salk noted, can lie dormant for years in the human body (a common example is the virus of the cold sore). Some may attack the nerves and do only slight initial damage. In later life these neglected infections may have serious aftereffects. For instance, said Salk, severe hypertension and gastric or duodenal ulcers can occur as a result of damage to the central nervous system. Although he made no claim to have such a vaccine now, Salk speculated that it might eventually be possible to give whole populations immunity in early life against viruses that attack the nervous system...