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Investigators can find no evidence of bacteria in the food which is suspected of causing the recent outbreaks of gastric disorders at Adams House and the Union, John C. Morris, Sanitary Inspector to the University Health Service, reported yesterday. He emphasized, however, that the findings did not rule out the possibility of an actual disease...
...through every symptom. They had long since told the chronicle of her sorrows: the childhood blindness, the unhappy love affairs, the near-fatal auto accidents. They had recorded her illness in Paris in 1954, the collapse in Stockholm in 1958, last year's major surgery (for a gastric ulcer) in New York. Now the headline writers seemed engaged in a macabre watch. "Piaf suffers and refuses to capitulate," cried Paris-Journal. "Piaf falling like Moliere on the planks of the provincial coliseum*-that was worth the trip," blared the daily Libération. France-Dimanche quoted the singer herself...
...Rosette. This opening (technically a "stoma," or mouth) was surrounded by a rosette of mucous membrane-part of the stomach lining. Because gastric juice tended to leak from the stoma, Tom had to keep it covered with a piece of absorbent gauze. Proud and sensitive, Tom managed to keep the secret of his feeding difficulty from all but his closest friends, got through six grades of parochial school, even played backyard football. He went to work first as a plumber's helper, married and had a daughter...
Pink & Relaxed. So fruitful was this association that m 1943 Wolf and Wolff published the most momentous study of digestion since Beaumont's: Human Gastric Function (updated in 1947). They had investigated not only the stoma and stomach but, by the psychosomatic approach, the whole man. They showed that Tom's stomach, when he was at ease, was pale pink and relaxed, with many convoluted folds, but bright red, smooth and tense when he became angry. Fright turned both Tom's face and his stomach pale. By shutting off the flow of gastric juices, depression made...
...worked out by the University of Minnesota's Department of Surgery, reported its chief, Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen. The patient swallows a balloon through which a frigid (23° F.) solution of alcohol and water is circulated. The chilling cuts down blood flow, and also the secretion of gastric juices to a negligible level so that they can no longer digest the stomach wall at the ulcer site. In ten patients it has taken an average of 25 cold-stomach hours to stop the bleeding...