Word: stomached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tageblalt of Berlin had it that the War Lord was living at Archangelskoye, a suburb of Moscow, in the palace of Prince Yusupov. This newspaper claimed that he was sick abed with consumption and stomach trouble, whereas he has usually been reported as suffering from some bronchial affliction. The same paper declared that the Bolshevik Triumvirate-Stalin, Kamenev, Zinoviev, all enemies of the War Lord-was conducting a campaign of hate against him by means of flaming illuminated signs...
Artificial ulcers in the intestinal tracts of dogs were produced when the secretions of the stomach were allowed to flow without first being mixed with the juices of the liver, pancreas and duodenum. The ulcers can be cured if the gastric juice is prevented from passing over them. The experiments proved that, if gastric juice is not neutralized, it attacks the tissues at the base of the stomach.-Dr. F. C. Mann, Mayo Foundation...
Insulin. A new means of administering insulin (diabetes cure), through the mouth instead of hypodermically has been evolved. Tablets with a coating that does not dissolve until it enters the intestines preserve the insulin from destruction by the juices of-the stomach.-Dr. John R. Murlin, University of Rochester...
...Wolffenstein, three wise men of Berlin, professors at the University there. They have made insulin into pills; not such pills as are wont to be taken by candlelight with a sob, a gulp of water and a lump of sugar. No, for insulin dissolves in the juices of the stomach and becomes virtueless. These pills melt in the mouth like very sugar, but, unlike sugar, they melt into the body direct, are absorbed through the pores of the tongue. The effect is reported to equal that of injections. Thus may the diabetes-stricken fight their malady, at some future time...
Died. Cipriano Castro, 62, one-time dictator of Venezuela; in San Juan, Porto Rico, from hemorrhage of the stomach. In 1890 his neighbors sent him, part Negro, part Indian, to Congress. He bought him a pair of patent leather boots. Boots, however, were his abomination; and each time that he went to Congress he was wont to take them off and place them under his desk until time for leaving came around...