Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American stomach, A.M.A.'s doctors agreed, is not in very good condition. Ulcers are on the increase, up some 4% since the beginning of the war. Stomach cancer, a closely related horror (many diagnosed "ulcers" turn out to be cancers), now kills 38,000 U.S. citizens a year -or one every 13.8 minutes. The doctors gloomily admitted that they have made small progress with either disease...
...Hospital. Said he: "While it is too soon to form conclusions about this operation, it is not too soon to . . . protest against . . . a mass experiment on human beings that is fraught with potentially serious and permanent disabilities." Dr. Boles's warning: the vagus operation, which partially paralyzes the stomach, may produce diarrhea and vomiting, make it hard to get rid of food in the stomach...
...Boles, who takes a dim view of all current treatments, including stomach surgery, suggested that the best ulcer patients can do is to stick to the doctor's prescription as strictly as diabetics and tuberculosis patients. "In the light of our present knowledge," said he, "I believe we should regard ulcer as an incurable disease. It may be held in abeyance, however, by cultivating a new manner of living. With some, this is easy; with others who are involved in a squirrel-cage existence, it is difficult, if not impossible...
Medicine will be an immediate beneficiary of Woodward's discovery. The synthesis provides a model for the way the body digests and then synthesizes its proteins. Stomach juices act on proteins to reshuffle the natural amino acid chains into the solid parts of the body...
...rejoice at this sudden glory of the uncertain English summer," it wrote. "Now that at last this cheerfulness has broken through, let none complain that this sparkling warmth is not to be borne." Grumpily the hot and footsore Standard muttered: "Do not drink iced drinks. They often bring on stomach cramps. Look after the feet. Eau de Cologne and methylated spirits applied at night are helpful...