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Shortly thereafter, in 1953, O'Hara nearly died after the hemorrhage of a gastric ulcer. Brushed by mortality, then almost crushed by it when his second wife died, he stopped drinking, and as he turned 50, settled down to one of the most determined, self-conscious and prolific assaults on posterity ever attempted by an American writer. The strategy was correct-most of the great social novelists have required many long volumes to explore the intricacies of how it all works. The results, alas, were fecund-rate...
...Visits to the famous spas of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Israel, Italy and Spain, designed for sufferers from arthritis, rheumatism, gastric disorders and respiratory ailments...
...October of 1968, her husband was admitted to the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville for treatment of internal pains. After four days-with Lilly in faithful attendance at his bedside-he died. An autopsy showed acute gastric ulcers and hemorrhaging of internal organs...
...long afterward, Lilly moved in with a carpenter, who also developed gastric problems and entered the same hospital. With Lilly once again in attendance, he finally grew so sick that all visitors were barred-whereupon he began improving. The doctors ran a battery of tests and discovered signs of arsenic, which, when administered in small doses over a period of time, produces symptoms that can easily be mistaken for those of other ailments. Some of the organs from Lilly's late husband were reexamined, and they also showed large amounts of the poison...
...sharp contrast to last week's ringing statements that mental illness is no disgrace-Eagleton and his family were extremely careful all along to disguise the facts. When Eagleton was first hospitalized for shock treatments in 1960, his father gave out the story that Tom was suffering from gastric disorders and a virus. Eagleton's office gave the same reason for the 1964 visit to the Mayo Clinic. In 1966, when he returned to Mayo for shock treatments, his law office issued a statement that he was at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for gastric tests. Eagleton admitted...