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Word: hemorrhoid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here on the center shelves are the prosaic items, toothbrushes and toothpaste, utilitarian, kid-proofed bottles of aspirin, razor blades, wart-burning solutions, hemorrhoid suppositories, the banal soaps of everyday for people who use soap to get clean. You notice the preponderance of American trochees: Colgate, Ben-Gay, Right Guard, Band Aids, Q-TIPS...

Author: By Karen A. Odom, | Title: Drugstore | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...traditional surgical cures, or simply embarrassed, most sufferers medicate themselves. Popular over-the-counter preparations can indeed relieve some symptoms temporarily. So can hot baths and a change in diet and bowel habits. But doctors emphasize that whenever rectal bleeding occurs, there should be a prompt proctological examination; while hemorrhoids themselves are not life-threatening, such bleeding may be a sign of cancer or some other serious ailment. Happily, most hemorrhoid complaints can now be treated simply and almost painlessly in the doctor's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Carter's Injury | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...hemorrhoids are internal, away from the lower rectum's nerve endings, physicians often rely on a technique known as rubber-band ligation. A tiny rubber band is looped tightly around the swollen region. No longer drawing nourishing blood, the hemorrhoid withers away. Carter, plagued by hemorrhoids since college, had just such a procedure in 1974. Some doctors inject a special solution into nearby tissue that constricts the vessels and thus cuts off the blood supply. Still another technique involves dilating, or widening, the anus with stretching devices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Carter's Injury | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

Hassan, the only King left in North Africa, is well aware that his is "a job that tends to disappear." His rule remains personal and absolute. When he spent a month recovering from hemorrhoid surgery last January, the government ground almost to a halt. Despite the tension with neighboring Algeria, Morocco has strong ties with most other Arab nations; except for issues involving Israel, it is basically pro-Western in foreign policy and open toward European and American investments. Since 1973 Hassan has emulated his oil-rich Arab allies by pushing up the price of phosphate rock from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Spectacular in the Sahara | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

Perversity. With two other painters, Edward Paschke and Jim Nutt, this imagery of possession enters a horrific level of sour humor. Nutt is the more playful. His drawing appears to derive equally from Dick Tracy strips (the thin, grotesque, saber-edged line) and back-of-the-comic ads for hemorrhoid cures. The result is a mildly purgative vulgarity, harsh and sexy and comic all at once-a visual equivalent to the kind of sub-Burroughs imagery one gets in some Rolling Stones lyrics. Says Nutt: "I don't know what you mean by 'vulgar.' My women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Midwestern Eccentrics | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

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