Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly all the victims had been operated on for disorders of the uterus, ovaries, etc. (two had had stomach operations). In each case the operation had seemed successful. But within 24 hours, every one of the patients had shown the same fatal symptoms: coma, rapid loss of reflexes, and what looked like severe scorching of the tongue. After the 15th death, Head Doctor Raymond Denis uneasily consulted a Paris toxicologist. The expert put Dr. Denis' vague horror into words: "There is a criminal in your service...
...left foot dragged the ground, he developed a stoop. He suffered from an infected sinus, swollen glands in the neck, continual headaches and stomach cramps. To relieve these pains, his physician gave him a proprietary drug compounded of strychnine and belladonna. It was called Dr. Koester's Antigas Pills...
...last week's A.M.A. Journal, a surgeon made a telling plea for a nationwide system of cancer detection clinics. Wrote the University of Minnesota's Owen H. Wangensteen: stomach cancer is so insidious and gives so little warning that every man over 50 and every woman over 40 should report to a clinic regularly for an X-ray checkup. To point up his argument, Dr. Wangensteen examined the case histories of five world-famed authorities (including Will Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, and R. D. Carman, who developed an improved method for X-ray diagnosis...
...shoots at your feet, you shoot at his stomach; show him you're tougher than he is," advised one kid-criminal. Said another, describing a police interrogation: "He picked up a slab of leather with a heel on it and he started hitting me with it, and he socked me down a flight of stairs...
...styles: "How bewitching to the eye, how becoming to the figure, these lovely elongated lines . . . from a prophetic group of fall silhouettes." Those who glanced at the side view illustration of the new fall silhouette were startled to behold a long-skirted, skinny female with obtruded stomach, her profile resembling a collage of boomerangs and an aged orange...