Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kitchen, headed for her mother's room with a knife. "I walked toward the bedroom door," said Lana. "He was right behind me. And I opened it and my daughter came in. I swear it was so fast, I truthfully thought she had hit him in the stomach ... I never saw a blade...
...patient eats but to do something positive about how often he eats-and that should be every two or three hours, counting the inevitable glass of milk. Purpose of frequent eating: to give the hydrochloric acid in the digestive juices something to work on besides the lining of the stomach and duodenum...
Internist Wolf (who studied the stomach's workings for years by looking inside a patient who had to be fed through a hole in his abdominal wall) believes that "merely restricting the diet has never been known to be of real value." A major exception: cases of bleeding ulcers. Patients allowed to eat what they want have done at least as well as the rigidly controlled, if not better. All ulcer patients react too strongly to stress. "So if a patient falls off the milk wagon, his guilt feelings may cause the gastric glands to secrete more acid...
...Part of the amble is described by McPheeters Sr. in letters to his wife. Son Jaimie, a growing lad who can never fathom what grown men see in women, tells the rest of the story; his insights and outlook are highly reminiscent of Huck Finn. He contributes many a stomach-turning episode, notably his pouring a brew of poisonous Indian medicine down ailing father McPheeters' throat through an oil funnel: "He spit the first dose straight up ... like a geyser, but the medicine soon took the fight out of him." The trouble is that much of Author Taylor...
...concerned, no published report to date approaches, in our opinion, the caliber of our recent Michigan study. There, tablets of Bufferin, the four leading commercial brands of aspirin, and an inert placebo were administered on different occasions to each of 146 human subjects who presented a history of previous stomach upset from each of the four brands of aspirin. Less than 7% of the subjects reacted to Bufferin. That suggestibility played no role whatever in these studies is evident in that only one of the 146 subjects noted stomach upset from the inert placebo...