Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sufferer, sidewalks sag, buildings wag. These are some of the symptoms that signal the onslaught of Meniere's disease, a recurring disorder of the inner ear that can in acute cases destroy the sense of balance and cause violent nausea, severe vertigo and progressive deafness. First recorded in detail by a 19th century French ear doctor, Prosper Meniere, the disease has been attributed to a variety of causes-cysts, tumors, allergy, arterial spasms, bacterial or viral infections, even psychological factors-and tends to disappear with the passage of time...
Psychological Effects. Workers in noisy surroundings often complain of such apparently psychogenic ailments as nausea, fatigue, headache, loss of neuromuscular coordination, and reduced sexual desire. "Noise can and does drive some people to distraction," says Dr. Knudsen. "If noise does nothing more than interfere with sleep -and this it does on a gigantic scale-it is a menace to good health." Knudsen carefully catalogued causes for his own middle-of-the-night awakenings, found that 75% were the result of noise. Most common culprits: auto horns, barking dogs, ambulance sirens, chirping birds. Dr. Knudsen's solution: earplugs. The plugs...
...infectious variety takes two to six weeks to develop. Common symptoms: jaundice, headache, fever (up to 104°), nausea, loss of appetite, diarrhea, enlarged liver, mental depression. Unlike any other contagious disease, hepatitis is harder on women than men. Only about three in every 1,000 hepatitis victims die from the disease, but even mild attacks are thought to precipitate progressive liver disease and cirrhosis. Many patients recover after seven or eight weeks, but others are still sick at the end of a year or more, and relapses are fairly common. Some patients become unwitting carriers of the serum type...
...that he was an alien and a spy, prying into the lives of an "undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings." He tried to find at least partial absolution in sleeping in beds that swarmed with fleas, lice and bedbugs, gasping through the offal stench, and ignoring his nausea to "eat for a few weeks what a million people spend their lives eating...
...waste, and the intestinal wall becomes inflamed and infected. Untreated, the infection may rupture and form an abscess outside the wall of the colon. A fistula is an abnormal passage that burrows into another organ or to the outside of the body. Symptoms in severe cases of diverticulitis:* nausea, vomiting, pain, constipation or diarrhea, chills and fever. Possible treatments: antibiotics, special diet, surgery...