Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother-an invalid whose sickness no doctor could diagnose. Home on furlough was son Vaughan, an R.A.F. squadron leader whose bombing forays over Germany had filled him with disgust and disillusionment. Orchilly's permanent guests were a Polish refugee pastrycook with a wife, a child, and a hereditary stomach ailment ("My motter die of vormce...
...microbes, he operates on the basis of chi (vapors)-spring, summer, autumn and winter vapors which may enter the body and produce changes. A stomachache is often merely too much chi in the belly. For this Dr. Chang occasionally prescribes sneezing powder which releases the pressure pain from the stomach. The theory is the same as lifting the lid of a spouting tea kettle to release steam. After Western laxatives had failed to relieve a certain Cabinet member, Dr. Chang prescribed a herb to "heat the vapor of the spleen." The statesman was cured overnight...
There last week, after eight days of unconsciousness, the young gunner revived. His only injuries: a bruised thigh, a lacerated ear, a ruptured blood vessel in his stomach. What had he done when he finally realized that he could not bail out? What could he do? He had unsnapped his parachute, sat down in his gunner's seat, lighted a cigaret-and waited...
...Stomach ulcer. For a number of months you have been suffering of gnawing and burning pains . . . especially violent 15 to 30 minutes after meals. Heavy foods . . . fatty meals and greasy foods do not agree with you. . . . The doctor will probably send you to hospital for observation. Very important: ... At the hospital, take a portion of dried blood powder every evening. The blood test in your stools will be positive. ¶ "Heart disease. Smoke 20 to 30 cigarets a day. But if you normally smoke as much, then you might double that number. . . . Take four [digitalis] tablets daily...
...intrepid pioneers of science announced a stomach-shaking discovery last week. Drs. Alfred H. Free and Jack R. Leonards, both biochemists at the medical school of Cleveland's Western Reserve University, first stuffed themselves on horse meat. (They would have preferred beef but lacked the ration points.) Then for several days they fasted, testing their blood at intervals...