Word: nausea
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...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...
University Health Services began to notice a larger-than-normal influx of patients last Thursday evening, and the victims were still trickling into Stillman Infirmary last night. In most cases, they complained of stomach pains and nausea; several attributed their illness to food eaten either in the Union or House dining rooms...