Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next, Dr. Swan spread Mike's ribs and began probing for the esophagus. He found that its lower end, where it joins the stomach, was unburned. He kept going until he found the upper end; it was also unburned. But in between was a 4-in. length of scarred, closed pipe. He cut that...
...farm policy under General Douglas MacArthur, he engineered one of the occupation's great achievements: the sweeping land reform that gave land on easy terms to nearly 4,000,000 peasants. To learn their problems, he waded into paddyfields and lived in their huts (because of a weak stomach, he avoided peasant fare, ate mostly eggs...
...handed him a "barium breakfast"-a glass of gritty, ill-tasting barium sulfate which he swallowed slowly with unconcealed dislike. The Pope remained standing as the barium salt (opaque to X-rays) moved down his gullet, and the doctors made exposures to show its entrance into his recently inflamed stomach. Then the Pope lay down on the table and the X-ray camera shot more pictures showing the barium's slow course through the stomach and into the upper intestinal tract...
...first exposures showed what the doctors had been looking for. At the hiatus, where the esophagus (gullet) passes through the muscular diaphragm from the chest cavity into the abdominal cavity (see diagram), the muscle was weak and part of the upper stomach had herniated or bulged through it. How the hernia started, they could not tell (it might have been there in milder form since birth), but there was no doubt that it was the cause of much of the Pope's recent gastritis, hiccuping and vomiting. The hernia held food like a pouch, instead of letting it pass...
...would be too upset by the inability to carry on his duties. That was also the view of Switzerland's unorthodox Dr. Paul Niehans (TIME, Sept. 13). So the doctors decided to continue doing all that they could to cut down the acidity of the Pope's stomach, and increase his feedings to build up his strength. By week's end they had him out of bed for a ten-minute walk in the garden, on the chance that exercise would make the protruding piece of stomach snap back through the diaphragm and into place. Unscientific...