Word: gastrically
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...September 1914 the appendix of Prince Albert was removed, in 1917 he was operated upon for acute duodenal ulcer. Despite these gastric difficulties, the Battle of Jutland found him in the "A" turret of H.M.S. Collingwood as that ship went into action. During the bombardment he coolly made hot cocoa for his fellow officers...
Even here his affinity for anecdotes pursued him. His voluble housekeeper (whose father had worked in a gasworks and naturally died of a gastric ulcer) complained that her niece insisted on becoming a nurse, so "I always tells her that's just the job for her, as she has got a heart like a flint, and she loves the sight of blood...
...from his attack of influenza last April, in a Washington hospital; Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., of influenza, in Rawlins, Wyo.; James Ramsay MacDonald, of an infection, in London; John Jacob Raskob, of neuritis, in Idaho Falls, Idaho; Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, of a gastric ailment, in Quebec...
...slim baby a mixture three parts milk, one part water; a "medial" baby two parts milk, one part water. Reason, according to Manhattan's Dr. Isaac Newton Kugelmass: normal cow's milk forms tough curds in baby stomachs, diluted milk forms soft curds. Lanky babies secrete enough gastric juices to digest tough curds with no trouble. Other body types require soft curds for comfort. All types "require 10% of mixed sugars added, with supplements of vitamins D and C. On the other hand all types tolerate breast milk." Other Kugelmass advice: for allergic newborn babies, goat...
...demonstrate that his thesis worked outside the laboratory, Dr. Blotner, 35, who strayed into this physiological bypath while trying to find out why diabetics cannot take insulin by mouth, performed the same experiment with digestive juice extracted by means of a stomach pump from healthy teetotalers. Natural gastric juices digested hard-boiled eggs in a few hours. Addition of alcohol completely arrested digestion...