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...parts the body can do without. Thanks largely to medicinal hormones that replace its own supply, the body can function adequately without: the master pituitary gland in the brain, both adrenals, the thyroid, the thymus, spleen, pancreas, gall bladder, one hemisphere of the brain, the gullet, much of the stomach, anywhere from a few inches to several feet of small bowel, the colon, rectum, one lung, one kidney, one testicle, one ovary, one breast, the prostate gland...
Ironically, an old. familiar operation has stirred some of the sharpest surgical controversy. In the American Journal of Surgery, Dr. Moore recently inveighed against the various stomach-cutting operations that have been tried as "cures"' for duodenal ulcer. "The removal of a large segment of normal stomach for a disease in the duodenum," he wrote, "is not only crippling, but wanting in elegance of rationale." Dr. Moore, who drives himself hard and ignores any possible effects on his own digestion, insists that the basic cause of ulcers is still unknown. The dazzling variety of stomach operations devised between...
...adventurous surgeons have devised still other ulcer treatments. From the fertile mind of Minnesota's Wangensteen came the idea that chilling the stomach, by running a coolant solution through a swallowed balloon, might stop bleeding from ulcers in the stomach itself. It did. Then with his surgeon son Stephen, Dr. Wangensteen reasoned that actually freezing the stomach wall might cripple the acid-producing cells and thus keep acid from spilling into the duodenum. It does, at least for several months. After that, says Dr. Wangensteen, the procedure can be repeated-though in any but expert hands...
Mondo Cane. Some episodes in this stomach-churning travelogue are almost Swiftian in their comment on human frailty. Others are simply funny. But the best/ worst parts provide some of the bloodiest minutes to hit the screen in a long time...
Wife of Bath. Any reminder of Rome offends his sensibilities. "I never want to see the place again as long as I live," he says. He has had his fill of flashbulbs in the dead of night, visiting "priests" with cameras under their cassocks, spoiled beans, stomach pumps, sleeping pills, Jewish singers, German orphans, and old friends who mail him headlines that say FUN?BURTON. But he has come away with an interesting souvenir?this riggish, Anglo-Egyptian dish of his, whom he has installed in a rooftop suite in London's Dorchester. He is not at all sure what...