Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the trial, in the interests of "public decency." Said Valente: "I have watched with growing uneasiness the mushrooming public anticipation of lurid and salacious details . . . The press of three continents was on hand to report the trial . . . Frankly, the reaction to this symptom of social illness is revolting nausea...
Though there are links missing from the chain of cause & effect, Dr. Robertson is confident that disgust and nausea arie two vital links. It does little good, he says, to give drugs to counter these patients' states of mind or interfere with the working of their glands, or, finally, to operate, because the illness has been fixed by years of conditioning. Dr. Robertson's name for it: "rejection dyspepsia...
...Robertson had a lot of men & women in his office complaining of indigestion before he noticed something odd. Nearly all the symptoms (acidity, distension, belching, nausea, vomiting) might be alike, but there was one consistent difference: the men had pain from the beginning of their illness, the women had all sorts of discomfort without actual pain, and nearly all were married...
With the onset of cooler weather, 1952's record-breaking polio epidemic was on the wane all across the country. Nevertheless, scattered here & there were hundreds of new cases that looked like poliomyelitis. Patients, mostly youngsters, who had headaches, fever, nausea, stiff neck or muscular difficulties were rushed to hospitals, and their cases were entered in the polio records. The truth was that many of the new patients did not have polio at all. There was good reason to believe that the season was producing an unusually large number of virus infections that only seemed to be polio...
...finished reading the Books section of the Oct. 13 issue of TIME with a distinct feeling of nausea. Is your taste so low that you believe books like these should be brought to the attention of your readers, or is the trend of literature so degraded that your reviewers can find nothing that would be fit for decent-minded people to read...