Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrival home, I proposed that my wife and I have a Martini before dinner and, subsequently, two more after. Without her suspicion, I gave her four capsules gr. 1½ Nembutal . . . 'powdered amphogel for upset stomach,' and then two doses of MS of 4 cc each, the latter being . . . fatal. I gave the baby 2 cc (½ grain) MS and 2 grains Nembutal without waking her. This also proved fatal...
Editor Schneck and his colleagues recommend using hypnosis to get at a wide range of psychosomatic illnesses-from stomach upsets, headaches and skin disorders to menstrual troubles, morning sickness and difficulties with breast feeding. In surgery, they say, hypnosis can be not only a valuable anesthetic, but can serve to distinguish between true & false complaints of physical illness. (In the case of the shipwrecked sailor, it served a dual purpose...
Physiologists are even changing their minds about what hunger is. Stomach contractions, the old scapegoat, do not explain hunger, because a man gets hungry even when his whole stomach has been removed. At Harvard's School of Public Health, Biochemist Jean Mayer has found evidence that "feeling hungry" depends on the amount of sugar in the blood. He says this goes up after eating, and the eater no longer feels hungry. But a few hours later it goes down, and he wants food. (In diabetics, the changes are more complicated...
...Back and stomach now: push ups, sit ups, leg lifts. Schmitt moved among his boys, counting in monotone . . . "lift, spread, together, down; lift, spread, together, down . . . one, two, three, four . . . up, down, up, down, up . . . hold it now, hold it . . . All right, up running in place for 20 counts...
...whisper-thin (6 ft. 1 in., 135 Ibs.), blue-eyed blond, is just as enthusiastic, and fast becoming as proficient as the famed Ruud brothers.*Last week, standing atop the towering (556 ft.) slide at Iron Mountain, Mich., Jon had "a little of what you call butterflies in the stomach." An exchange student (engineering) at the University of New Hampshire this year, he also had a tight-lipped determination to win the North American championship...