Word: gastrically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dunster House is an architectural and gastric unit. Built far down Memorial Drive, it was placed by an ingenious plan in a triangular plot bounded on one side by the beautiful blue Charles, and on the two back sides by Cambridge tenements. Dunster is not like Lowell, in the center of things. In fact, connections with the Administration have enabled the House to secure two P.W.A. excavations that have increased its geographical isolation. Dunster has steadily become more a center in itself, and of all the Houses, has the greatest reputation for self-sufficient smugness...
This was just to get the gastric juices tuned up to digest roast turkey with cranberry sauce, baked sweet potatoes, cauliflower, boiled quail on toast with cress, and lettuce...
Ordinary treatment for such poisoning is gastric lavage, a purging of the stomach and intestines with quantities of milk and eggs. But it must be done quickly and at best one victim in four dies. Survivors often have permanently damaged kidneys. Dr. Rosenthal's antidote is sodium formaldehyde sulphoxylate, which changes the poison into less toxic mercurous compounds. It is administered through a stomach tube and intravenously. Dr. Rosenthal has saved every one of ten acutely poisoned humans, without appreciable kidney damage, hopes hospitals throughout the land will test his foil for suicides...
Meanwhile the rest of the world was gravely concerned by the day-to-day increase of diplomatic tension between mighty, patient Russia and small, aggressive Japan. Last month Edouard Herriot of France reported on a visit he made last summer to Russia after which he nearly died of gastric disturbances and a kidney infection. Statesman Herriot pointed out that hostilities between Japanese and Russians, if not between Japan and Russia, have in fact commenced. Thus M. Herriot cited the complaints of the Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway spanning Japan's puppet State of Manchukuo. The manager, Comrade...
Experiments on St. Martin's digestion continued. When Dr. Beaumont had made and recorded 238 protocols, he published at his own expense 1,000 poorly printed copies of Experiments & Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion. It was the first thoroughgoing, precise study of its subject matter, and was the first significant U.S. contribution to Medicine. Copies of the book in good condition are now worth...