Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacation on the Presidential yacht Williamsburg had been going badly. In Narragansett Bay he had encountered wind, cold and rain. Then he had found himself struggling against the nameless indignities of seasickness. As the yacht rolled southeast on her hunt for the sun he had bribed his queasy stomach with seasick pills. But now, in the harbor of Hamilton, Bermuda, the deck was solid, the water blue, and there were white coral, pastel walls and green foliage ashore...
Doctors have long suspected that stomach ulcers, popularly considered an occupational disorder of business executives, doctors, taxi drivers, newsmen and others who work under stress, have their root in the nervous system. If so, Dr. Dragstedt reasoned, overstimulation of the nerves must somehow be responsible for the abnormal secretions of gastric acid. When he tested his theory, he discovered that the operation did indeed greatly reduce the amount of gastric juice in the digestive system. Cutting the vagus nerves just above the stomach slows digestion, but seems to have no serious effect on other organs...
...with a History. About 80% of all ulcers respond to medical treatment-e.g., a mild, unstimulating diet-and a change to a less exacting job. The remaining 20% may be relieved by removal of ulcerated sections of the stomach or intestines, but often new ulcers break out after the operation. All the vagotomy cases were in this stubborn group...
After a vagus operation, ulcers heal rapidly, the stomach quiets down and the patient leaves the hospital within twelve days. At Massachusetts General Hospital, Surgeon Francis D. Moore reported that vagotomy is especially effective for young or middle-aged men with a long history of peptic ulcers. Nonetheless, Drs. Dragstedt, Moore, et al., advise the operation only after diet and other treatments have failed. For nervous stomachs and the "tensions and strains of modern life," says Dr. Dragstedt, preventive psychoanalysis may be better than nerve-cutting...
...back room of Casey's saloon rolled into one, and when the smoke cleared away not a picture still hung on the wall. And there wasn't any Democratic party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes and his shirt sticking to his stomach with sweat. And he had a meat ax in his hand and was screaming for blood...