Word: gastrically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Droning noises may not only destroy the auditory nerve, but also reduce the flow of saliva and gastric juices. Noise, fear, and changing atmospheric pressure (lowered pressure expands intestinal gases, may cause violent cramps) all add up to a second major occupational disease of fliers: "gastric disturbances...
Died. Doktor Heinrich Ritter von Neumann 66, world-famed Austrian ear & throat specialist, himself partially deaf; of a gastric ailment; in Manhattan, where he had gone to assist in resettlement of Jewish refugees. His skill brought him summonses from Kings Edward VIII of England, Alphonso of Spain, Carol of Rumania, George of Greece, many a penniless sufferer. Only patient he refused to treat: Adolf Hitler...
Last April, at the age of 77, Dr. William James Mayo, elder of the Rochester (Minn.) Clinic's famed Mayo brothers, went under the knife for an ailment he had often treated: perforating gastric ulcer. For a while "Dr. Will" rallied, but all the magnificent resources of the Mayo Clinic failed to save his old, wornout body. Last week Dr. Will died. He had survived his brother, Dr. Charlie, his lifelong friend and partner, by only two months. Still practicing in Rochester is the last of the Mayos, Dr. Charlie's son, 41-year-old Dr. Charles William...
...grains and vegetable fats, no milk, butter or fresh vegetables. Not only were these rats stricken with well-known deficiency diseases such as pernicious anemia (lack of iron), goiter (lack of iodine), beriberi (lack of vitamin B), but they also developed pneumonia, pleurisy, deafness, adenoids, eye ulcers, kidney stones, gastric ulcers, heart disease, skin infections...
...have restricted themselves and their staff to small salaries, have turned back their surplus profits to the Clinic and the University of Minnesota. In 1915 they founded a graduate school in connection with the University of Minnesota. Shrewd, dignified Dr. Will, now 77 and recovering in Rochester from a gastric ulcer operation, has managed finances with an eagle eye. Poor patients (approximately one-fourth of the Mayo practice) pay nothing, sometimes get checks instead of bills. Rich patients pay huge sums, computed from their rating in national credit agencies...