Word: gastrically
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Reading the Body. The doctors tell in detail how, given two patients with severe pain over the stomach, they may be able to tell which has a gastric ulcer and which has gall-bladder trouble. The patient with the ulcer is likely to be alert, dark-haired (but with an almost hairless chest), slim, long-jawed (but with delicate facial bones). He is likely to have oblong teeth, long hands, a sharp angle where ribs join the breastbone, "somewhat narrow lips, often down-curving at their angles." The patient with gall-bladder trouble is likely to be phlegmatic, blond...
...patient who vomits a little blood may simply have ruptured a small blood vessel after prolonged retching; if he really has a gastric hemorrhage from ulcer, he is likely to gush a pint of blood...
...uncomplainingly let the doctors do almost anything to him. His was a peculiar schedule: with or without breakfast, as the doctors prescribed, he lay all morning on the examining table, sometimes napped; in the afternoons he tidied up the laboratory and ran errands. Human Gastric Function reports what happened when Drs. Wolf & Wolff plied and prodded Tom's stomach with whiskey, glass rods, hot & cold water, mustard, drugs, air pumps. The book is a minute record of his stomach's color, secretion and activity when Tom felt relaxed and secure, when he was full, hungry, worried or angry...
...Unusually vigorous stomach contractions caused Tom to suffer cramping "hunger" pains. Pinches and pricking and electric shocks sufficient to cause intense pain to a man's skin had no effect on Tom's gastric mucosa. But when a spot on his stomach lining was stripped of its protecting mucus and sprinkled with mustard, it became very sensitive. Strong pressure with a glass rod or from a balloon inflated in his stomach to 1,500 cc. gave Tom a stomachache...
...doctors found out some new things about ulcers by producing a small ulcer on a bit of exposed stomach membrane. Mucus protects healthy stomach walls from being digested by their own juices, but this area did not have much mucus, and an ulcer developed when the doctors merely dropped gastric juice on it. The spot bled and grew for four days. Meanwhile the whole stomach lining became inflamed and produced more gastric juice than before. The doctors found "a vicious cycle is set up [by stomach ulcers], since the acid gastric juice in contact with a denuded region induces further...