Word: spasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Carlson has found, he said, that the stomach has a rhythmic action of its own, with alternate periods of spasm or contraction, lasting a half-hour to an hour and one-half, with periods of rest be tween. Animals from the snail to man, and humans from prematurely born infants to the aged, all show the same phenomenon. It is not a nerve action. The motor nerves are not involved, although action of the sensitory nerves is needed before hunger can be felt. When the sugar content of the blood is low the spasms in the stomach are much...
...paramour, so that his son's name may never be smirched by her evil doings. The son, when he grows to lusty manhood, follows his father's footsteps into a similar domestic snare; he, too, when his mother tells him the story of her extra-marital spasm, sends away the lover and insists on honor for his son's sake. His wife refuses to adopt this course; for so doing, her mother-in-law kills her. The thoughtful content of this problem melodrama is not, obviously, of great value; but the actors use their bellows loudly...
...fight a foreign war. He borrows a seal from the prince's pretty mistress and sends a plea to King Frederick of Prussia. This just and apparently omnipotent ruler puts an end to the avaricious plot of His Serene Highness, the Prince, causing this character to have a spasm of rage. Piderit and his brothers fare, for peaceful reasons, to the wide, delicious and enduring freedom...
...violated tabu, that he had eaten of the dish destined for the alimentation of his holiness the king. The news struck he poor victim like a charge of the Four Horsemen. He turned pale. His knees shook. He seemed visibly to wither away. Shortly he sank to the ground, spasm after spasm of pain shaking him from head to foot. Before sunset he was dead, snuffed out by sheer fright...
...some ice cream or cracked ice ; or tried some chloroform, musk or morphine; or put a hot water bottle on his stomach or cervical spine; or merely stuck out his tongue as far as he could strain. These are various means of calming hiccoughs. The hiccough results from a spasm of the victim's diaphragm, which suddenly descends and causes the lungs to suck in a draft of. air. The air strikes against the partially closed glottis to cause the characteristic ripping cough. Frequent attacks of hiccoughs may accompany certain nervous and gastric disorders, uremia, peritonitis, etc., and should...