Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old Quebec stevedore complained of stomach pains, weight loss, nausea, shortness of breath and a cough. Most frightening of all, his face had turned a morbid blue-grey. Doctors suspected a severe vitamin deficiency, but when 49 identical cases appeared within seven months in the Quebec area, they questioned their first diagnosis...
...with a feeling of acute nausea that I read your story about Truman Capote's faux-party...
...alone, it is not really a disease at all. It is a group of symptoms that have defied both explanation and effective treatment. However it is labeled, the disorder usually starts with a ringing in the ears (tinnitus), followed by impaired hearing, spells of dizziness accompanied by unbearable nausea, and severe vomiting. Meniere's, named for French Physician Prosper Meniere (1799-1862) who first described it, is so distressing that doctors are eager to try anything that will give their patients a measure of relief. Some get help from drugs, including histamine solutions, which have to be infused into...
...process. But in a careful double-blind study, in which neither doctor nor patient knew which was the drug and which was the dummy sugar pill, Dr. Joseph C. Elia of Reno reported excellent results. Three-fourths of the time, the patients on the drug enjoyed relief from dizziness, nausea and headache; the tinnitus response was not so uniform, but still substantial...
Victims of the virus suffered stomach cramps and nausea, which Prout described as "more uncomfortable than dangerous." The fact that Adams and Dunster house were untouched by the epidemic Prout attributed to their isolation from the rest of the Harvard community...