Word: gastric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farewell banquet was accorded Financier John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the Court of St. James's, at the Long Island estate of his sister, Joan Whitney Payson, co-owner with Whitney of the famed Greentree Stable. Next day, in a Manhattan hospital recovering from gastric ulcer surgery, the diplomat-to-be's wife, Betsey Gushing Whitney, heard a special tape recording of the tributes paid her husband at the dinner. Among the notable banquet guests: CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley and high-styled Barbara Gushing Paley, Long Island Newsday Publisher Alicia Patterson, Broadway Producer Richard...
Motorists driving north must now pass roadblocks where inspectors search cars for plants or fruit that might harbor Medflies. All such stuff is confiscated, but owners of fruit are allowed to pull over and eat their contraband. Human gastric juices kill Medfly larvae (one couple last week ate nine melons). Fruit not disposed of in this way is doused with insecticide and buried 3 ft. deep...
...Radiological Society of North America was told at its 41st annual meeting in Chicago. The X-ray movies verify accurately what diagnostic physicians have only been able to guess about, e.g., the swallowing process (which doctors found varies greatly from person to person), the stomach's pushing action (gastric peristalsis), speech defects, heart anomalies...
...hospitalization and transfusions for minor injuries. But when he had a tooth pulled early last month, intensive bleeding (20 to 25 pints a day) set in. At Duke University Hospital in Durham, doctors put him on the critical list, called for blood donors. As Willie grew weaker, an old gastric ulcer opened up, added to the blood loss. Clotting drugs (e.g., thrombin and Gelfoam) and antihemophilic globulin flown in from the Health Department in Lansing, Mich. failed to halt the drain. Moreover, antibodies built up from previous transfusions neutralized the clotting qualities of the newly transfused blood. Last week, after...
...heart always was exceptionally strong; if that has given way, they reasoned, his last and best defense against death is gone. But next day good news came down from the small, white bedchamber-the Pope was feeling better, the X rays showed nothing alarming. The tentative diagnosis: a "gastric or ulcerous condition [caused by] high gastric acidity." The Pontiff still insisted that the doctors' bulletins be brought to him for his personal editing...