Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gallstones are common in middle-aged gall bladders, attack three or four women to every man. Some people can live comfortably with them for years, but if the stones slip into the gall-bladder ducts and cork them up, they cause excruciating pains in the pit of the stomach, the breastbone, or the right side of the back...
...great many famous people have traded with Billings and Stover. Nearly all the big names in Harvard history for the past eighty-five years are recorded in the prescription books, of which there are 112. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had a prescription filed once for stomach trouble. All the Roosevelts, too, from the elder Kermit and Teddy on down to our contemporaries, have been regular customers. Mr. Mahoney speaks of Norman Prince, who was the first American to die with the Lafayette Escadrille. And Mr. Justice Frankfurter, though now in Washington, still keeps his account at Billings and Stover. Only...
...seems to me that the man who is traveling on the Willkie train is affected with a sour stomach and should have a change of assignment. I might expect to find such an article as appears in your issue of Sept. 23 headed "Republicans" in some pretty ordinary-class magazine, but it is a surprise to me to find such an article in TIME...
Services and Cures. Each patient arriving at Memorial is routed into one of eleven highly specialized departments, each with its own staff. Largest number find their way into the Head & Neck Service, next largest go into the Breast Service. Others: Gynecological (womb cancers, etc.), Gastric (stomach), Genitourinary, Bone and Medical (the leukemias and lymphatic cancers). Best cure records (between 60 and 70%) run in lip, skin, womb and breast cancers. Worst (under 10%) are in prostate gland and the leukemias...
...Strecker, were "interesting and sometimes truly amazing." Homicidal aggressions and panics due to hallucinations disappeared. The hallucinations persisted, but it became easier to recall the patient to reality. One of the cases was a young woman who had been so violent she had to be fed with a stomach tube. She insisted on going naked, flew into frequent rages. A week after her operation she was willing to wear clothes, play bridge, could take walks, talk intelligently. Now, said Dr. Strecker, she spends much time sculpturing...