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...corrosive juices rather than just neutralizing them after they have formed. They cannot provide immediate relief, but their effects tend to be long-lasting--which has some critics of the OTC trend worried. They fear that prolonged, unsupervised use of H2 antagonists could mask such serious problems as gastric reflux, in which stomach acids back up into the esophagus and eat away at its inner lining...
...ensures that the kind of narrative Gopnik and Varnedoe present works better in the catalog than on the walls. In fact, it is hard to see how any museum installation -- linear and one-track by + nature -- could convey a real sense of the peculiar eddies of cultural flux and reflux that they have set out to describe. Abstract Expressionism, for instance, tended to set itself above popular culture -- yet one of its true icons, De Kooning's 1950 study for Woman, had a smile cut from an ad for Camel cigarettes. The work does not appear in the show. There...
...doubt, as Kenneth Clark pointed out a generation ago, that Leonardo's eye was preternaturally fast; he could grasp and isolate fractions of movement in time with a precision that would only be confirmed, more than four centuries later, by strobe photography. So with his drawing: the reflux of foam, the chrysanthemum-like poppling of the back eddies on the surface, the strings and rings of bubbles are seen with astounding acuity, as is the rendering of different levels of water motion in the transparent depth of the cistern...
...hernia consisted mainly of stitching the diaphragm to restore the hiatus to its natural, former size and putting the stomach back in place. This worked well for most patients, at least for a few months, but after that as many as 25% had a recurrence of their acid reflux. So they were back where they started with "heartburn," which became especially severe while they were lying down, and it was likely to wake them in the middle of the night. Then they spent sleepless hours, propped up in pain...
Correcting a Curve. In the last nine years, Dr. Lucius D. Hill of Seattle's Mason Clinic has succeeded in correcting reflux in all but three of a total of 254 patients, and in only one case was there a recurrence of the hernia sufficient to allow the stomach to slide up. Hill's technique, which is now being adopted by many other surgeons, involves a more elaborate procedure: stitching part of the stomach to form an internal flap that prevents reflux. Ligaments and other tissues are attached where the gullet joins the stomach, so that this junction...