Word: pepticity
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Wiry, bustling Bernard Cornelius Duffy, 48, president of the big Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn advertising agency, has the occupational ailment of his trade: peptic ulcers. He works at such a man-eating pace that, as he says, "I only call home if, by happy surprise, I can get there for supper...
...crash of sound; she had to go back and start all over again. Another vowed that she would grow "earlids" if she knew how to. Said Psychiatrist Harold Harris, a commuter: "This noise could be the straw that breaks the camel's back . . . Real physical illness . . . like peptic ulcers or hypertension . . . are due to suppressed rage and hostility...
...Keith S. Grimson, professor of surgery at Duke University, had relieved a lot of peptic ulcers with a combination of tricky operations. But for three years he had been looking for a way to get the same kind of result without surgery. Last week Duke's Grimson announced that he and two associates had succeeded-with a drug called banthine...
...Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, he told the doctors. The onetime fire-eating chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee was just in no shape, he insisted, to stand trial in federal court on charges that he padded his congressional payroll. Ever since he had been operated on for peptic ulcer, he said, he had suffered from depression, sometimes wept, had phobias about seeing people, driving a car and going to the barbershop...
...below 41 (on whom information could be obtained) dying from this cause during 1946 and 1947 in Cincinnati were cigarette smokers; that abnormal addiction to tobacco smoking is present to a highly significant degree in male coronary victims of all ages; that these facts and similar ones for peptic ulcer are most likely based on the well-known toxicity of nicotine for nerve cells of the automatic (involuntary) nervous system controlling these organs...