Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lawrence, he was drawn to the "blood consciousness," and he felt that urban industrialized life cut man off from innocence, vitality and a piety before nature. On a brittle, sophisticated level, Lowry was weary of it all. On a more profound level, he felt the kind of metaphysical nausea that Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins expressed in the lines...
...possible to arrive at a Judy Garland concert, if one is not a believer, in a state of considerable nausea. The listener knows more than he cares to know about Judy's perpetual troubles-with studios, husbands, nightclub owners, food and the British press. He knows also that Judy has sung Over the Rainbow over and over since she was 17, and that she will sing it again, sure as there is ooze in Oz. Worst of all, there will be the Garland believers who clap wildly and weep like new widows at anything Judy does onstage...
...state that "nicotinic acid, to be effective [in controlling blood cholesterol], must be administered in massive doses. The result: flushing, itching, nausea, headaches, changes in the blood...
This is a misleading generalization because flushing and itching disappear, except in very few cases, after the first days of treatment, and transient nausea and headaches are encountered infrequently. Changes in the blood have, to my knowledge, not been reported. On the other hand, from your report one gains the impression that a restriction of fat intake will always lead to a significant lowering of blood cholesterol. This is not the case, and it is especially in refractory cases that nicotinic acid has proved its value. Nicotinic acid is not indicated for cooperative patients whose blood cholesterol responds to dietary...
...with the liver's formation of cholesterol, forces it instead to produce a suspicious substance called desmosterol that is chemically related to cholesterol-and may even have the same damaging effect on arteries. Nicotinic acid, to be effective, must be administered in massive doses. The result: flushing, itching, nausea, headaches, changes in the blood...