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Rushed to a Hollywood hospital, he lay mostly in a coma, suffering from myocarditis, chronic nephritis, cirrhosis of the liver, gastric ulcers. When his great friend, Author Gene Fowler, visited him, Barrymore stage-whispered weakly: "Come closer, Gene, and hold my hand . . . lean over, Gene, I want to ask you something. ... Is it true that you're an illegitimate son of Buffalo Bill?" During a later lucid interval he was received back into the Catholic Church. Last week, at 60, with only his brother Lionel at his bedside, John Barrymore died...
Died. John Barrymore, 60; of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscles), with chronic inflammation of the kidneys, cirrhosis of the liver, and gastric ulcers as contributing factors; in Hollywood...
...Digestive disorders are a serious problem in the Army. . . . 12.5% of all cases evacuated from the B.E.F. in France [in World War II] had a diagnosis of gastric or duodenal [intestinal] disease. . . . Whenever a diagnosis of ulcer has been established, the soldier should be invalided from the Army and returned to civilian life in the shortest possible time. . . . In civilian practice patients with gastric or duodenal ulcer obtain rapid relief of symptoms from rest in bed and diet, but in my experience such symptomatic relief is rarely encountered in military practice...
Hopkins, a much-suffering man, chronically ill with vague internal maladies which have been diagnosed as everything from gastric ulcers to nervous stomach, has been in good health (for him) for more than a year, suffered a recent relapse only when he lost his pills in Moscow. The importance of Hopkins' illness was in his position as a Washington influence. If a project has his approval, it cuts through Army, Navy and defense red tape, with absolute priority. If it has not his approval, dust gathers on it, important people forget it, its backers gradually fade away. When Harry...
...Denver she got a job as housekeeper to prosperous Harry Whitlock, a widower who lived with his mother and son. Shortly thereafter his mother died of a gastric ailment. Unsuspecting Mr. Whitlock married his jailbird housekeeper and took out an insurance policy in her favor. But police had found the trusty who had helped her escape. Lyda read about it in the newspapers and left town. Police caught her in Topeka, Kans. Whitlock got an annulment of their marriage...